You need to use the Umbraco Membership Provider method, rather than the built in Windows Security one. There's an example of creating members programmatically in Umbraco here: http://www.nibble.be/?p=20

Hope that helps!

:)

Tim

thanks very much for the info, I've got it working now.

However, there are the following warnings:

umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member.Member.MakeNew(...) is now depracated

umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member.Member.AddGroup(int) is obsolete use System.Web.Security.Roles.AddUserToRoles.

Any thoughts on this?

Andy

I would like to point out that I got this reply from a CORE member on the topic a while back. I've been using the built membership methods in the .NET library quite successfully, with the exception of having to impliment custom proprties in the Umbraco Membership.

It could be cleaned up a little, but this has worked well:

    protected bool createUserAccount()
    {
        if (Membership.GetUser(txtEmailAddress.Text) == null)
        {
            MembershipCreateStatus status;

            try
            {
                MembershipUser user = Membership.CreateUser(txtEmailAddress.Text,
                    txtPassword.Text,
                    txtEmailAddress.Text,
                    System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PasswordRecoveryQuestion"],
                    System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PasswordRecoveryAnswer"],
                    true,
                    out status);

                if (status == MembershipCreateStatus.Success)
                {
                    try
                    {
                        // Add Roles using the static string array DefaultRoles
                        Roles.AddUserToRoles(user.UserName, MemberRoles.DefaultRoles);

                        // Add Umbraco Properties
                        Member member = Member.GetMemberFromEmail(txtEmailAddress.Text);

                        if (member != null || member.Id > 0)
                        {
                            member.Text = txtFirstName.Text + " " + txtLastName.Text;
                            member.getProperty("firstName").Value = txtFirstName.Text;
                            member.getProperty("lastName").Value = txtLastName.Text;
                            member.getProperty("company").Value = txtCompany.Text;
                            member.Save();
                        }

                        return true;
                    }
                    catch (Exception err)
                    {
                        return false;
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    return false;
                }
            }
            catch (Exception err)
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Hi,

I think the problem might rely in your web.config file. Did you specify the "defaultMemberTypeAlias" attribute in the membership provider definition? Or does the one specified exist in your Umbraco backend?

See this wiki post for more information: our.umbraco.org/.../umbracomembershipprovider-properties

Hope this helps

Cheers,

Michael.

Thanks for your tip on 'defaultMemberTypeAlias', saved me a lot of time!

You're welcome :-) !

How do you create a member with a specified type using the new ASP.NET based API? It seems you can only create one with the defaultMemberTypeAlias looking at that?

Also, what are the roles? Are they the Member Groups?

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