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VGMembershipInstanceGetUser Method (String)
Gets the information from the repository for the specified membership user.

Namespace:  Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Membership
Assembly:  Novalys.VisualGuard.Security (in Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.dll) Version: 2019.1.831.19 (2019.1.0831.19)
Syntax
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public VGMembershipUser GetUser(
	string username
)

Parameters

username
Type: SystemString
The name of the user to retrieve.

Return Value

Type: VGMembershipUser
A VGMembershipUser object representing the specified user. Null (Nothing) when the user was not found
Exceptions
ExceptionCondition
ArgumentNullExceptionusername is null.
ArgumentExceptionusername is empty or longer than 64 characters or contains invalid chars ('\', '/', '?', '*', '%', ';', ''', '"', ':', '|', '[', ']', '+', '=', ',') for Visual Guard account.

-or-

username cannot be converted to SID for Windows Account.
SecurityExceptionThe current user does not have enough privileges to use Membership API. The Membership access level of the application must be sufficient to allows this action or the 'Membership Manager' role must be granted to the user by using the Visual Guard console.
Remarks
For application supporting more than one Authentication mode, this method will look an account with the same name in the following order: Visual Guard account, Database account, Windows account.

The method will only look for supported authentication modes declared in the Visual Guard configuration file.

If you to want to look in other order of the order specifed bellow, you have to use the method GetUser(String, VGAuthenticationMode)
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