I've been looking through several examples of how to add a user through code. Almost everyone, and the core, use a function in the UserController called CreateUser, which returns a Membership.UserCreateStatus. This is very helpful for end users if, say, a username already exists, I can display a message. What's not cool about this is that it doesn't return a UserId.

I need to programatically create a user, then add them to a role. Is this impossible with CreateUser? Am I stuck with the AddUser function?

Thoughts?

I came to the same realization that you have to get the user by username after you create the account. This seems like a needless trip back to the database, but unfortunatley it seems like the only way. It sure would be nice if the UserCreateStatus object had the userid.

Hey guys.

I was also confused about how to get the userID of the user i just created but found that, after i create the user with the CreateUser method, the userInfo object actually contains the userID.

Here's a piece of my code, note the red marked text;    

UserInfo userInfo = new UserInfo();

userInfo.PortalID = 0;
userInfo.Username = username;
userInfo.FirstName = firstname;
userInfo.LastName = lastname;
userInfo.DisplayName = username;
userInfo.Email = email;
userInfo.Membership.Approved = true;
userInfo.Membership.Password = password;

DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.UserCreateStatus userCreateStatus = CreateUser(userInfo);

if (userCreateStatus == DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.UserCreateStatus.Success)
   {
        response = "Success! {" + userInfo.UserID.ToString() +" }"; // <- correct user ID retrieved here!

   }

protected DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.UserCreateStatus CreateUser(UserInfo objUserInfo)
   {         
       return UserController.CreateUser(ref objUserInfo);
   }