VGMembership.GetUser Method (String)

Gets the information from the repository for the specified membership user.

public static VGMembershipUser GetUser(
String username
);

Parameters

username: The name of the user to retrieve.

Return Value

A VGMembershipUser object representing the specified user. Null (Nothing) when the user was not found

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

Exceptions

Exception Type	Condition
ArgumentNullException	username is null.
ArgumentException	username 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.
SecurityException	The current user has not 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.

VGMembership.GetUser Method (String)

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