Sorry for about that. I am using the built in Membership controls. It works quite well except I need to get the user ID that is stored in the aspnet_Membership table. I found the user name in Page.User.Identity.Name. I really don't want to make another trip to the database just to get the userid.

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>>I have my web site running and logging in. The login controls seems to be this big black box and I can't seem to find much documentation on how the work. I seems hard to find anything in the help. Now I need to know where to get the user id for each hit after the user logs in?
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>You don't mention what authentication you are using and I'm not sure what you mean by the 'user id' but Page.User should provide an IPrincipal so maybe something like Page.User.Identity.Name........