how do i find the status of loginstatus?

Hello i am using visual studio and c# for a project at university. I have only just started using c# I have a website which you can log in and out of. I have a lable on my site that contains text saying "you are logged in as:" next to it is the [loginname]. i want to be able to hide the lable when nobody is loged in. and reveal the lable when they are. i know i can use .visible = true/false on the lable. i also realise it needs to be in an if statement. How do i retrieve the status of the login status? i have tried putting if (loginstatus = true) when i do this it says: "CS0118: 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.LoginStatus' is a 'type' but is used like a 'variable'" is it possible to retrieve the status of the login status to use it as a condition?

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Nikola 020y ago
One way of keeping track of a login status is sessions.

Upon verification of the user, create a session object and add it to the session state.

Session.Add("s_loginstatus", sessioncontents);

On your subsuquent pages, check to see if the session object exists:

if(Session["s_loginstatus"] == null)
{
LoginStatus.Visible = false;
}
else
{
LoginStatus.Visible = true;
}

sessioncontents is of type object
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