Hi--

My question is about how to programmatically access user accounts, e-mails, etc. from the DNN database. Doesn't seem to be working for me


Here are the details:

I'm developing some services which I'll put on a subdomain - but I'm selling subscriptions to online client-side software (with a front end in silverlight or AJAX) - and the data will be vended by WCF services. Different subscriptions (i.e., user roles) will have access to different amounts / types of data


So far, common problem.


However I've only worked with the basic ASP.NET 2.0 membership model that ships with the framework - DNN builds on top of this.

So I fired up a test web application and replaced the "LocalSqlServer" name with the connection string for the DNN database in the <connectionStrings/> section of the web.config file.

I also verified that "ailling" is a user name under the dbo.aspnet_Users table within my DNN database.

However the following line of code returns null:

MembershipUser usr = Membership.GetUser("ailling");


So my question is:
1) Should you be able to access users programmatically from the ASP.NET membership model that ships with the framework, or does DNN use a custom provider model that I need to connect to?

2) If you can use the base-ASP.NET membership model, am I just doing it the wrong way? Any special parameters, etc. need to be provided?


Everything I google on this always returns me information about how to build your own custom membership provider model, either within DNN or the framework--that's not what I want to do. I just want to tap into the users in my DNN database from code.




Thanks in advance!

Alan