VGMembership.GetUser Method (String, VGAuthenticationMode)

Gets the information from the repository for the specified membership user with the specified authenication mode.

public static VGMembershipUser GetUser(
String username,
VGAuthenticationMode mode
);

Parameters

username: The name of the user to retrieve.
mode: the mode of authentication of the user.

Return Value

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

Exceptions

Exception Type	Condition
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. -or- mode is not equal to Windows or VisualGuard or Database or is a combination of values.
NotSupportedException	The value of mode is not defined in the list of supported authentication mode declared in the Visual Guard configuration file.

Exception Type

Condition

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.

-or-

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

NotSupportedException

The value of mode is not defined in the list of supported authentication mode declared in the Visual Guard configuration file.

VGMembership.GetUser Method (String, VGAuthenticationMode)

Parameters

Return Value

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