So, I have caught on to making web parts with user controls but I am having a bit of a problem authenticating users. My Setup: 1 web server I am putting a new kentico cms on an existing website, for testing purposes I have it in the /www directory. I have it all setup and running. I'm to a part where I need to start authenticating users from my external database. The Kentico database is on the same server as my users but in a separate database. So, on my login page I setup a web part to deal with the logging in with just the standard username and password boxes, along with a button. I am very used to VB so this may just be a syntax problem(even though I am showing no errors). Here is my ideal way to do this: Authenticate from my external user database and add the user into the Kentico database with the appropriate role. Much like this http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/index.html?security_handler.htm Right now, I am trying to verify that the person logging in authenticates with my current user database and then authenticates with the kentico user database. I setup a test account on both databases with the same username and password. I will explain what the classes below the btnLogin_Click do but most just call stored procedures to search through my external database for the user information. so here is the first part of my login.ascs.cs:

protected void btnLogin_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        if (EAST.User.Authenticate(txtUsername.Text, txtPassword.Text) == true)
        {
            EAST.User usr = new EAST.User(EAST.User.GetUserId(txtUsername.Text));
            if (usr.Exists)
            {
                if (usr.IsActive)
                {
                    if (usr.IsApproved)
                    {
                        if (usr.HasValidEmail)
                        {
                            EAST.User.Login(txtUsername.Text, chkRememberMe.Checked);
                            UserInfo user = null;
                            user = CMS.SiteProvider.UserInfoProvider.AuthenticateUser(txtUsername.Text, txtPassword.Text, CMS.CMSHelper.CMSContext.CurrentSiteName);
                            if (user != null)
{
  // Authentication was successful
} 

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public static bool Authenticate(string Username, string Password)
        {
            DataTable tbl = EAST.Data.GetDataSet("CheckLogin", Username).Tables[0];
            if (tbl.Rows.Count > 0)
            {
                DataRow row = tbl.Rows[0];
                if (Convert.ToBoolean(EAST.Security.CompareHash(Password.ToString(), row["Password"].ToString())) == true)
                {
                    return true;
                }
                else
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                return false;
            }
        }

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 public static void Login(string Username, bool PersistentCookie)
        {
            HttpContext.Current.Session.Abandon();
            System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(Username, PersistentCookie);
        }

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public static int GetUserId(string Username)
        {
            DataTable tbl = EAST.Data.GetDataSet("SelectUserId", Username).Tables[0];
            if (tbl.Rows.Count > 0)
            {
                return Convert.ToInt32(tbl.Rows[0]["UserId"]);
            }
            else
            {
                return 0;
            }
        }

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Am I making this way too complicated? I've tried cutting back to just the very first if statement and still, nothing happens, the login page just does a postback like it's not even recognizing the button is wired up. Oh, and I didn't forget to put in

using CMS.SiteProvider;
public partial class CMSWebParts_EASTwebparts_login : CMSAbstractWebPart

Any suggestions?