I am developing an application that tracks a requisition for a new user and these requisitions are stored in a SQL database.

The requisition has a link to the user table.

When filling a requisiton I need to do 4 things.

Create a new user.
Record their Address in their profile
add the new user to one of 4 selected roles
update teh requisition table with the new user ID.

I would like to simplify the user experience by providing 1 screen to complete all 4 tasks.

The screen will have first and last name as well as address, city state and zip.

I will generate the user name and password from the first and last names.

I have added a reference to the DNN DLL and am trying to use the exposed objects and methods to do this correctly.

I have attempted to implement the following code to create the user and profile records:

Dim objmembership As New DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserMembership
Dim oUserInfo As New DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo
Dim oprofile As New DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserProfile

oUserInfo.PortalID = 0
oUserInfo.IsSuperUser = False
oUserInfo.Username = FN.Value & LN.Value
oUserInfo.FirstName = FN.Value
oUserInfo.LastName = LN.Value
oUserInfo.DisplayName = FN.Value & " " & LN.Value
oUserInfo.Email = email.value

objmembership.Approved = True
objmembership.Password = FN.Value & LN.Value & "1"
oUserInfo.Membership = objmembership

oprofile.City = City.Value
oprofile.Street = Address1.Value
oprofile.PostalCode = Zip.Value
oprofile.Region = St.Value
oUserInfo.Profile = oprofile

Dim objUserCreateStatus As UserCreateStatus = DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.CreateUser(oUserInfo)

But I keep getting an nullreferenceexception error on the last line trying to generate then user creation status.

I have confirmed that oUserInfo, objmembership, and oprofile are all valid and referenceable.

All the examples I have seen are c# and I have done my best to convert them to vb.net
Also I am fairly new to using DNN so I don't know if I need anything else to be able to utilize the DLLs

I am developing this in Visual Web Developer express 2010 using vb.net and the error comes up when debuging in my test aspx page which is not launched through DNN so I am not actually logged into DNN when testing.

Don't know if that makes any difference, maybe the fact that there is no user to populate the created by user value?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in Advance

Eli Silverman