VGMembershipInstance.GetUser Method (String, VGAuthenticationMode)

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

public 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 several values.
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.

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 several values.

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.

VGMembershipInstance.GetUser Method (String, VGAuthenticationMode)

Parameters

Return Value

Exceptions

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