The PasswordRecovery.VerifyingUser event is raised on the server before the user name is submitted to the membership provider to determine whether the user name is valid. Use this event to perform any preprocessing needed on the user name, such as converting it to all uppercase or lowercase letters, or verifying that the user name is in a particular format, such as an e-mail address.

The System.Web.UI.WebControls.PasswordRecovery control first raises the PasswordRecovery.VerifyingUser event, and then uses the membership provider specified in the PasswordRecovery.MembershipProvider property to determine whether the user name entered is a valid user name for the Web site. If it is valid, and the membership provider supports password question and answer, the password verification question is returned from the Web site and the System.Web.UI.WebControls.PasswordRecovery control displays the Question view. If the user name is not valid, the text in the PasswordRecovery.GeneralFailureText property is displayed in the UserName view so that the user can enter a different user name.

If the membership provider does not support password question and answer, the PasswordRecovery.SendingMail event is raised and e-mail is sent to the user with the new or recovered password.

For more information about handling events, see Events and Delegates.

Namespace: System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Assembly Versions: 2.0.0.0
Since: .NET 2.0