For current SendGrid instructions, see SendGrid or Enable account confirmation and password recovery.Īlthough this tutorial only shows how to add email notification through SendGrid, you can send email using SMTP and other mechanisms (see additional resources). SendGrid has changed it's API since this tutorial was written. You'll use the email service SendGrid in this tutorial. In the sections below, we will enable email confirmation and modify the code to prevent newly registered users from logging in until their email has been confirmed. You generally want to prevent new users from posting any data to your website before they have been confirmed by either email, an SMS text message or another mechanism. Email confirmation provides only limited protection from bots and doesn't provide protection from determined spammers. Suppose Bob accidentally registered as and hadn't noticed it, he wouldn't be able to use password recovery because the app doesn't have his correct email. Suppose you had a discussion forum, you would want to prevent from registering as Without email confirmation, could get unwanted email from your app. It's a best practice to confirm the email during the registration of a new user to verify they are not impersonating someone else (that is, they haven't registered with someone else's email). You'll add this email again in the next step and send a confirmation message to the email address.
In Server Explorer, right-click on the AspNetUsers table and select Show Table Data.Īt this point the email for the registered user has not been confirmed.Ĭlick on the row and select delete to delete the user. The following image shows the AspNetUsers table schema: In Server Explorer of Visual Studio ( View -> Server Explorer), navigate to Data Connections\DefaultConnection\Tables\AspNetUsers, right click and select Open table definition. You will modify the code to add email confirmation. At this point, the only validation on the email is based on the attribute to ensure the email address is well-formed. Run the app, click the Register link and register a new user. Follow the steps available in the Enable SSL for the Project section of the Getting Started with Web Forms tutorial series.
Then, click OK to create the new project.Įnable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for the project. If you'd like to host the app in Azure, leave the Host in the cloud check box checked. Leave the default authentication as Individual User Accounts. NET Framework version from the New Project dialog box.įrom the New ASP.NET Project dialog box, select the Web Forms template.
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Warning: You must install Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 or higher to complete this tutorial.Ĭreate a new project ( File -> New Project) and select the ASP.NET Web Application template and the latest.