I found a work around for anyone experiancing the same issue.

It appears that a lot of things check the IsAuthenticated in the HttpRequest, this isn't true until another post back after the user is logged in.

There is some areas that Check the HttpContext though, also set at post back, but you can set it manually.

Got all this from looking at source

https://dotnetnuke.svn.codeplex.com/svn/Trunk/Library/Entities/Users/UserController.vb

So whats the work around?

After you've done the programmatic login you need to manually set the HttpContext like so

Dim objUser As UserInfo
objUser = UserController.UserLogin(PortalSettings.PortalId, ctlUserData.Email, ctlUserData.Password, "", PortalSettings.PortalName, Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR").ToString(), loginStatus, False)

HttpContext.Current.Items("UserInfo") = objUser

Then instead of using the UserId property of the ModuleBase use the usercontroller, because it doens't check HttpRequest, it looks at the HttpContext.

UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo.UserID

I then had to do a find replace on serveral large files in my project, buts its working now, I can do all my steps in the one post back :)

I think taht the portalbase.vb modules should be chagned to check the HttpContext the same and the UserController Module though, this is a inconsistancy that verges on a bug in my mind.

Regards,

Joel