VGMembership.ConvertUsernameToRepositoryId Method

Converts the username of a user to a Visual Guard unique repository id for the specified authentication mode

public static string ConvertUsernameToRepositoryId(
String username,
VGAuthenticationMode mode
);

Parameters

username: the username to convert
mode: the Visual Guard authentication mode

Return Value

A Visual Guard unique repository id

Remarks

The Visual Guard unique repository id is used by Visual Guard to identify uniquely a user account in a Visual Guard repository.

Exceptions

Exception Type	Condition
ArgumentNullException	username is null.
ArgumentException	username is empty. - or - mode is equal to VisualGuard and is longer than 64 characters or contains invalid chars ('\', '/', '?', '', '%', ';', ''', '"', ':', '\|', '[', ']', '+', '=', ','). - or - mode* is equal to Windows and username cannot be converted to a valid SID. - or - mode is not equal to Windows or VisualGuard or Database or is a combination of several values.

Exception Type

Condition

ArgumentNullException

username is null.

ArgumentException

username is empty.

- or -

mode is equal to VisualGuard and is longer than 64 characters or contains invalid chars ('\', '/', '?', '*', '%', ';', ''', '"', ':', '|', '[', ']', '+', '=', ',').

- or -

mode is equal to Windows and username cannot be converted to a valid SID.

- or -

mode is not equal to Windows or VisualGuard or Database or is a combination of several values.

VGMembership.ConvertUsernameToRepositoryId Method

Parameters

Return Value

Remarks

Exceptions

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