Great example! I had posted something like this once. And folks may want to keep an eye out for a great Wrox Blox on this topic in January. It is written by Antonio Chagoury, the DNN Blog Module lead.

works like a charm! great post!

Thanks for the post.
Any idea how to send a notification email to the user (username and password)? I know it's somewhere in DNN core, but still wondering if you have an instant answer.

Frank,

I would have to go digging for this, but my guess is that it is somewhere in the UserController, or User Class.

What is oExternalUserAccount.Password? in your code? How do i pass password from my form text box.

Raj,

That is simply the password from the external system. (This code is taken from my auth provider.)

To get from a textbox, simply replace that call with the code to get your textbox value!

thanks for this post
i search long time to find this useful code

i get error in this line
oNewMembership.Password = oExternalUserAccount.Password;

i nedd any namespace to add it ?

thanks it's working good now

add a User To a Role
DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController rc
= new DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController();

//retrieve role
string groupName = "mygroup";
DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleInfo ri = rc.GetRoleByName(PortalId, groupName);
//suppose your userinfo object is ui
DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo ui
= DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo();

rc.AddUserRole(PortalId, ui.UserID, ri.RoleID, Null.NullDate);

Posted by Ahmed at 1:41 AM

http://dotnetnuke-free.blogspot.com/2009/04/add-user-to-role.html

I'm pulling my hair out over an issue I'm having with this exact thing. I create the user exaclty as described, but than try to login as my new user and the password fails. I've tried everything to set the password within membership, but nothing seems to work except for going straight to the DB and copying a previously created password and salt from another user onto my new one. Any idea what I'm doing wrong? BTW this is DNN 5!

Even I am getting same error

oNewMembership.Password = oExternalUserAccount.Password

oExternalUserAccount does not exists.... What name space I need to add

"oNewMembership.Password = oExternalUserAccount.Password

oExternalUserAccount does not exists.... What name space I need to add"

The "oExternalUserAccount.Password" simply returns a string and refers to an object set up by Mitchel elsewhere.

Try:

oNewMembership.Password = "letmein"

That will work - pass any string, it doesn't have to be "letmein" of course!!! - in practice you would normally read this string from a password textbox.

Where can i find the VB.NET version of this code? can someone please help.

Getting the vb.net version of this is pretty simple.

Change "this" to "Me", remove the ; characters and change the syntax on the if statement and variable declaration.

Hi,

I already did the action. I also want to send an email notification when user created with verification code..

I did something like that:

uinfo.Profile.PreferredLocale = PortalSettings.DefaultLanguage;
UserCreateStatus createStatus = UserController.CreateUser(ref uinfo);
if (UserCreateStatus.Success == createStatus)
{
DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.UserUserControlBase.UserCreatedEventArgs args = new DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.UserUserControlBase.UserCreatedEventArgs(uinfo);
args.Notify = true;
args.CreateStatus = createStatus;
DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.UserUserControlBase a = new UserUserControlBase();
a.OnUserCreated(args);
a.OnUserCreateCompleted(args);




}
else
{
lblCSVMsg.Text = UserCreateStatus.UnexpectedError.ToString();
}

But seem to me email notification dnt going right.

As soon as the step:
oUserInfo.FirstName = rdr.Item("FIRST_NAME")
is executed, an exception is thrown:
The type initializer for 'DotNetNuke.Entities.Profile.ProfileController' threw an exception.
The object accepts the PortalID and IsSuperUser values.

I was able to solve my problem. I am new to DNN and I had to clean up some issues with my development environment. Thanks to your help, my import works nicely!

Thank you very much for your post, I've been struggling with customizing the standard DNN user creation through the Users & Security module with very little luck.

With a bit of an adjustment I got your code to work perfectly for my DNN 05.04.02. Below are the adjustments that I made for anyone who could use them:

protected void Click_Buttons_AddUser_Submit(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo oUser = new DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo();

oUser.PortalID = this.PortalId;
oUser.IsSuperUser = false;
oUser.FirstName = TextBox_AddUser_Name.Text;
oUser.LastName = TextBox_AddUser_Surname.Text;
oUser.Email = TextBox_AddUser_Email.Text;
oUser.Username = TextBox_AddUser_Username.Text;
oUser.DisplayName = TextBox_AddUser_Name.Text;

oUser.Profile.PreferredLocale = PortalSettings.DefaultLanguage;
oUser.Profile.TimeZone = PortalSettings.TimeZoneOffset;
oUser.Profile.FirstName = oUser.FirstName;
oUser.Profile.LastName = oUser.LastName;

oUser.Membership.Approved = true;
oUser.Membership.CreatedDate = System.DateTime.Now;
oUser.Membership.IsOnLine = false;
oUser.Membership.Password = TextBox_AddUser_Password.Text;

try
{
if (DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.UserCreateStatus.Success == DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.CreateUser(ref oUser))
{
Notice_Success(Success_Msg + "YAY!");
}
}
catch (System.Exception ex)
{
ErrorLogging(ex);
Notice_Error(Oops_Msg + "awww :( ");
}
}

Hi !
I'm trying do do my own registration module and I did what Ajit did by firing the OnUserCreate() event and no email is sent... Did someone found a way to make it happen ?

I also need to automatically log the newly created user. Can you help me ?

Thanks,

Vincent.

Be nice if you didn't include line numbers in the code sample. Kinda pain to cut & paste. Thank you anyway, I assume it works. Will find out soon. And the using statements would be nice.

I am beginner with DNN and i need create a new user but I don't understand where is the connection string or how I need configure it??
tks

Here's the above code in vb with a few additions. Hope this helps.

Function CreateDNNUser(ByVal userName As String, _
ByVal userPassword As String, _
ByVal firstName As String, _
ByVal lastName As String, _
ByVal eMail As String, _
ByVal displayName As String, _
ByVal userRole As String) As UserCreateStatus
Dim oUser As UserInfo = New UserInfo()

With oUser
.PortalID = PortalId
.IsSuperUser = False
.FirstName = firstName
.LastName = lastName
.Email = eMail
.Username = userName
.DisplayName = displayName
End With

With oUser.Profile
.PreferredLocale = PortalSettings.DefaultLanguage
.TimeZone = PortalSettings.TimeZoneOffset
.FirstName = oUser.FirstName
.LastName = oUser.LastName
End With

With oUser.Membership
.Approved = True
.CreatedDate = System.DateTime.Now
.IsOnLine = False
.Password = userPassword
End With

Dim result As UserCreateStatus = UserController.CreateUser(oUser)
If result = UserCreateStatus.Success Then
If userRole.Length > 0 Then
Dim roleController As DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController = New DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleController()
Dim roleInfo As DotNetNuke.Security.Roles.RoleInfo = roleController.GetRoleByName(PortalId, userRole)
roleController.AddUserRole(PortalId, oUser.UserID, roleInfo.RoleID, Null.NullDate)
End If
End If

Return result
End Function

Thanks for your code sample, Derek. I was just looking for something like that.

Hi,
I have to create DNN user account from an external website.
First of all I m very new to DNN.
However, I try this code :
DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo oUser = new DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo();
oUser.PortalID = 0;
oUser.IsSuperUser = false;
oUser.FirstName = "stan";
oUser.LastName = "LastName";
oUser.Email = "test@test.com";
But I get an NullReference exception error on the line oUser.FirstName="stan";

and by the way (hope this post is still active)... what would be the files and/or settings I have to add to my external project and webconfig....

I thank you in advance for your support

I keep getting the NullReference exception error as well.
Is there a way to work around it?

Great post Mitch. Thanks.

DotNetNuke 6.0 (DNN6.0 +) update:

The TimeZone line should be done as follows (the Profile.TimeZone and TimeZoneOffset are deprecated).

oUser.Profile.PreferredTimeZone = PortalSettings.TimeZone;