Hello, people!

Help me, please!
I want to write a custom login module and i want to solve this problems in my module:
1. Users login in Corporate System using specified UserName and Password.
2. User information are stored in corporate system and i want to use it.
3. Use a DNN Roles and other to administrate site.

It is possible ?
Sorry for my English :-)

If you are going to be using DNN 4.3.x / ASP.NET 2.0 you can create your own implementation of the MembershipProvider (DNN's version) to access users in a data store other than the default ASP.NET Membership tables. If your other data store contains the "equivalent" of roles then you can also sync the roles with DNN using a custom job.

 

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Henry Kenuam
Engage Software
St. Louis, MO
314.966.4000



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There are tons of sites with information about the ASP.NET Membership Provider and related membership tables. Here is a link to a pretty good article: http://www.devx.com/asp/Article/29256/1954?pf=true

This example demonstrates how to create your own membership provider for ASP.NET by extended the default SQLMembershipProvider and overriding some methods to provide your own behavior. This should get you famliar with the concepts.

A couple of things to keep in mind if you attempt to build your own provider for DNN. The Core Team decided not to extend Microsoft's MembershipProvider in 4.3.x and to create their own version located in the DotnetNuke.Security.Membership namespace. This is the class that your new implementation would extend and replace the AspNetMembershipProvider. One other thing that you will notice is that DNN's implemention of the "provider" model is not as pure you might expect. Their AspNetMembershipProvider has overlapping behavior within various methods which will force you to implement in your version. I'm hoping that future versions of their provider model seperates the DNN User table logic into a concrete class/methods that could be extended and then "added" onto by the custom implementation.

Hope that helps you get started.

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Henry Kenuam
Engage Software
St. Louis, MO
314.966.4000



The leading provider of DotNetNuke support, training and custom module development