Hello Roger,

I am planning to integrate your gallery into a custom CMS that I have designed. The CMS already has a complete user system that is similar to the membership classes but it is completely custom.

I am planning to disable all of the user management features in the gallery and pass the logged in user info to the gallery.

I starting stepping through all of the source code to find the login points. After spending a fair amount of time going through everything I thought I should post on here for some suggestions before making changes.

Do you have any suggestions about how to pass the user info to the gallery.

Thanks for your help

Thanks so much,

I was planning to do something much more complicated. It is pretty easy to securely encrypt webserice communications. I will also make sure that only logged in users can access the web service. I will post the code here in case anyone else wants to use it or if you want to include it in a future release.

Bryan

Try one of the ways I described in my first reply. Pick the one that sounds easiest to you.

The membership provider is defined in the web.config file. Replace the existing definition with yours and then make sure your membership dll is in the bin directory.

Yeah, your idea won't work. You need to create a new membership *provider*, but it's not as scary as it sounds. You only have to implement the methods that GSP uses; leave the others empty. For example, if you won't be creating users in GSP, you don't need to implement the CreateUser method (just use an empty method body and return null).

One of the most important you will need to implement is the GetUser function.

I don't understand your question about "standard provider methods".

I advise making a copy of the SQLite membership provider class and modifying it to suit your needs. Start by deleting the contents of all override methods except the GetUser one (the one with this signature: public override MembershipUser GetUser(string username, bool userIsOnline)). Modify GetUser for your situation and start experimenting.

If you will be using GSP for reading membership rather than updating it, that might be just about all you need.

Roger,

I have my membership provider and logonuser webmethod setup and compiling. It doesn't seem like calling the UserController.LogOnUser(username) initiates the membership providers getuser method. The logonuser method goes through succesfully but GalleryPage.IsAnonymousUser user is still true and breakpoints within the getuser method of my custom provider never get hit. Is there a way to force this to happen or am I still missing something?

Thanks,

Bryan

Thanks for the feedback again,

I am finally getting very close to having this working. I actually did a complete 360 and started over in a new route. I have changed our CMS to use the sqlmembership provider. I have our CMS and the gallery working off of the same users and roles now. I also have the gallery webservice being called from the main web application when a user signs in.

Our website is setup in its own virtual directory then the gallery setup is in a virtual directory one level down (http://www.website.com/gallery).

When I redirect out to the gallery after being logged into the regular site the gallery doesn't think there is a logged in user. I am assuming that is because of the virtual directories being separate so they are using different authcookies.

Do you think I should try to keep my current setup and force the gallery to create its own auth cookie when the Logon webservice is called or can you think of a better way?

soooo close,

I really like your design methodology. I do software consulting for about 20 different companies and I rarely get into someone else's project and am impressed. You have done a very good job with this Gallery. How long have you been working on it?

Bryan

After reading through you documentation I am going to try what you have listed in the "Integrate into an ASP.NET web application" section. It looks like that should work.