Are you trying to do this from a web application or from outside a web application (ie - a console application)?

Can you provide all your code?

PS: This is the right forum, the our.dev is for questions about the forum itself :)

Thanks slace.

I'm really just testing at this point, but I'm running a web application that on the click of a button, sets off the method NewRegistration.

The line that fails is the first line of the method CreateUserType.

Code is:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;
using umbraco.BusinessLogic;

namespace UmbracoLink
{
    public class UmbracoLink
    {

        #region Public methods
     
        public void NewRegistration(String SiteName, String Username, String Password)
        {
            UserType userType = CreateUserType(SiteName);
           // User user = CreateUser(userType, SiteName, Username, Password);
           // Int64 siteId = CreateSite(SiteName, user);
        }

        #endregion

        #region Private methods

        private UserType CreateUserType(String SiteName)
        {
            UserType ut = UserType.MakeNew(SiteName + "Admins", "CAD", SiteName.ToLower() + "-admins");
            ut.Save();
            return ut;
        }
       
        private User CreateUser(UserType UserType, String SiteName, String Username, String Password)
        {
            //set the right user type ID (available in usertype tree in the backend)
            User.MakeNew(SiteName + "Admin", Username, Password, UserType);
           
            //Get the user from ID or login
            User u = new User(Username);
           
            //Allow access to umbraco section
            u.addApplication("settings");
            u.Save();
            return u;
        }

        private Int64 CreateSite(String SiteName, User User)
        {
            //Get the type you would like to use by its alias
            //and the user who should be the creator of the document
            DocumentType dt = DocumentType.GetByAlias("Textpage");
          
            //create a document with a name, a type, an umbraco user, and the ID of the document's parent page.
            //To create a document at the root of umbraco, use the id -1
            Document doc = Document.MakeNew("My new document", dt, User, -1);
           
            //after creating the document, prepare it for publishing
            doc.Publish(User);
           
            //Tell umbraco to publish the document
            umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(doc.Id);
            return doc.Id;
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

Hi Richard,

Have you configured the data adapters within the web.config?

Sincere regards,
Eduardo

Hi Eduardo,

Where would I find instructions about that?

So far I've installed the product using the MS Web Platform Installer, configured it and created a few sample templates, stylesheets, content, etc using the UI.

Then I went straight into creating the .NET project and class that's above.

Hi Richard,

Why do you want to create the groups dinamically? I prefer creating groups through Umbraco BackEnd.

If you want to create members(frontend user accounts), use ASP.NET controls like createUserWizard:

http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/ctrlref/login/createuserwizard.aspx

You can create members with createuserwizard and then, create an user for the backend. Here goes the example.

On the aspx or ascx page:

     <asp:CreateUserWizard ID="CreateUserWizard1" runat="server" 
            oncreateduser="CreateUserWizard1_CreatedUser">
        <WizardSteps>
            <asp:CreateUserWizardStep ID="CreateUserWizardStep1" runat="server">
            
            </asp:CreateUserWizardStep>
            <asp:CompleteWizardStep ID="CompleteWizardStep1" runat="server">
            </asp:CompleteWizardStep>
        </WizardSteps>
    </asp:CreateUserWizard>

On the createduser event handler:

 protected void CreateUserWizard1_CreatedUser(object sender, EventArgs e) 
 {        

  var newgroup =umbraco.BusinessLogic.UserType.MakeNew("MynewGroup", 
                                                     "PD", 
                                                     "newgroup");    
var user = umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.MakeNew(CreateUserWizard1.UserName.ToString(),
                                   CreateUserWizard1.UserName, 
                                   CreateUserWizard1.Password, newgroup); 
user.Save();
 }

Web.Config example(it works):

  
     <!-- Membership Provider -->
    <membership defaultProvider="UmbracoMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
      <providers>
        <clear />
         <add name="UmbracoMembershipProvider" type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoMembershipProvider" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" defaultMemberTypeAlias="Another Type" passwordFormat="Hashed" />
          <add name="UsersMembershipProvider" type="umbraco.providers.UsersMembershipProvider" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" />
       </providers>
    </membership>
       <profile defaultProvider="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" enabled="true" >
        <!--inherits="BeComputed.MemberProfile"-->
         <providers>
             <clear />
           <add name="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoProfileProvider, umbraco.providers" />
          </providers>
        <properties>
            <clear />
           <add name="nombre" allowAnonymous="false"  provider="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" type="System.String" />
              <add name="apellidos" allowAnonymous="false"  provider="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" type="System.String" />
           <add name="fechaexpiracion" allowAnonymous="false"  provider="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" type="System.DateTime" />
       </properties>
   </profile>
      <!-- added by NH to support membership providers in access layer -->
    <roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="UmbracoRoleProvider">
        <!--AspNetSqlRoleProvider-->
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="UmbracoRoleProvider" type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoRoleProvider" />
       <!--<add connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" applicationName="UMBRACO" name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
       <add applicationName="UMBRACO" name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />-->
      </providers>
    </roleManager>

For more information:

Follow the this link, you will find an interesting wiki article.

http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/14567-Add-new-user-via-API

If you have any doubt let me know.

HTH.

Sincere regards,
Eduardo Macho

Thanks Eduardo,

I'll give that a shot.

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