VGSecurityRuntime.ValidateUser Method (String, String)

Verifies that the supplied user name and password are valid by using the authentication mode VisualGuard or Database mode.

public VGAuthenticationState ValidateUser(
String username,
String password
);

a VGAuthenticationState indicating if the validation succeeds or not.

This method do not changes the Principal property or the AuthenticationState property. You must use the method Authenticate to authenticate the current user.

Exception Type	Condition
ArgumentNullException	username or password is null.
ArgumentException	username is empty or contains invalid chars ('\', '/', '?', '*', '%', ';', ''', '"', ':', '\|', '[', ']', '+', '=', ','). or user or password is longer than 64 characters.
VGConfigurationException	The configuration file is not valid or A problem occurs during the connection to the repository. or The version of the repository or the version of the permissions is not supported by the application.
NotSupportedException	the repository does not support the VisualGuard or Database mode.