UserManager.CreateUser<TUser>(IObjectSpace, String, String, String, Action<TUser>, Boolean) Method

Creates a new user with the specified settings.

Namespace: DevExpress.ExpressApp.Security

Assembly: DevExpress.ExpressApp.Security.v25.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.ExpressApp.Security

Declaration

C#

public UserResult<TUser> CreateUser<TUser>(
    IObjectSpace objectSpace,
    string userName,
    string loginProviderName,
    string providerUserKey,
    Action<TUser> customizeUser = null,
    bool autoCommit = true
)
    where TUser : class, ISecurityUserWithLoginInfo

VB.NET

Public Function CreateUser(Of TUser As {Class, ISecurityUserWithLoginInfo})(
    objectSpace As IObjectSpace,
    userName As String,
    loginProviderName As String,
    providerUserKey As String,
    customizeUser As Action(Of TUser) = Nothing,
    autoCommit As Boolean = True
) As UserResult(Of TUser)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
objectSpace	IObjectSpace	An Object Space used to create the user.
userName	String	A user name for the new user.
loginProviderName	String	The name of the login provider for which to create a user.
providerUserKey	String	The user login for the specified login provider.

Optional Parameters

Name	Type	Default	Description
customizeUser	Action<TUser>	null	A delegate method used to additionally customize the created user object.
autoCommit	Boolean	True	A boolean value that specifies whether or not to automatically commit the changes to the Object Space.

Type Parameters

Name	Description
TUser	A user object type.

Returns

Type	Description
DevExpress.ExpressApp.Security.UserResult<TUser>	An object that contains the result of the user creation operation.

Remarks

Use this overload of the CreateUser method to create a user for a specific authentication provider.

C#

using DevExpress.ExpressApp.Security;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
// ...
// Use Dependency Injection to access the IServiceProvider.
var userManager = serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<UserManager>();
string providerUserKey = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
var userResult = userManager.CreateUser<ApplicationUser>(os, "User", "ProviderName", providerUserKey);

The CreateUser method returns a UserResult object. This object exposes the following properties:

Succeeded

A boolean property that indicates whether or not a user was created successfully.

User

The created user object.

Error

If user creation fails, this property contains the resulting Exception.