LOL, if you're suggesting I use Google to find instances of people who don't know how to do something, I'll be here all day. Try "I can't connect to SQL Server" or "I can't put on my own pants".

I know there are pros and cons for both methods. There are also many benefits to WSPs, even for real-life, professional, high-impact web apps. And 8 out of 10 of the issues people raise with WSPs are due to a cronic unfamiliarity with aspnet_compiler.exe .

I'm using YAF in two projects now, which are WAPs. I don't want YAF to be the application. I want YAF to be a set of controls that I plop into my application (which can be a WAP if I choose, or not). YAF's current packaging makes this easy. I have its core assemblies, and I have the UI, which I can customize or throw out altogether if I wish. When I build my application into a WAP, YAF's pages are included in the build just like my own pages. YAF becomes part of my WAP.

There's no "migrating to a WAP" involved at all; just a ./forum/ directory in my app containing YAF's UI-- no different from any of the other files I'm building.

The key thing is that those who want YAF to be a WAP can build it that way right now. 100% of users can use it. If Jaben changes to a WAP model, then 40% of users can use it. Migrating from a WAP to a WSP is much more difficult.

You can upgrade directly from 1.9.1.6, remember to backup before you do.
Also remember its not a final release, so not meant for production environemnts.

Screwturn Wiki uses her own provider model. I've made my custom Screwturn Wiki user provider, it just calls membership provider configured for ASP.NET application. If you are interested in trying it or helping with it, just PM me and we'll get in touch.

Short answer - it's easy to integrate ASP.NET provider model with SC Wiki one. It's matter of few dozens lines of code.

Hi

I downloaded YAF v1.9.3 ALPHA (Dated 12/22/2007) which is having Membership roles. It is working fine. I want to merge that into my application. In the previous YAF which does not have Membership worked fine after merging into my application when i modified the root in yafnet.config. But in the YAF v1.9.3 ALPHA it is not having yafnet.config.Can you plz tell me where to modify that.And can i merge YAF's web.config file to my applications web.config file as one application should have only one web.config file.

Thanks

I have a problem when trying to add yaf to an existing website with already created membership and roles. I'm not exactly sure how to do it but what I've tried to do is add the yaf roles, membership, and profile to the exisiting web.config file. Everything works fine until I try to migrate existing users over to yaf. I then receive the following error. This is from the install process and the user doesn't exist until I add him as the admin user on the previous step. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?


The user 'bryan' is already in role 'Administrators'.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderException: The user 'bryan' is already in role 'Administrators'.

Source Error:

Line 190: {
Line 191: RoleMembershipHelper.SyncRoles( PageBoardID );
Line 192: RoleMembershipHelper.SyncUsers( PageBoardID );
Line 193: }
Line 194: e.Cancel = false;


Source File: d:\wwwroot\aamro\site\forums\install\default.aspx.cs Line: 192

Stack Trace:

[ProviderException: The user 'bryan' is already in role 'Administrators'.]
System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider.AddUsersToRolesCore(SqlConnection conn, String usernames, String roleNames) +2238010
System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider.AddUsersToRoles(String[] usernames, String[] roleNames) +705
System.Web.Security.Roles.AddUserToRole(String username, String roleName) +341
YAF.Classes.Utils.RoleMembershipHelper.MigrateUsersFromDT(Int32 pageBoardID, Boolean approved, DataTable dt) +3062
YAF.Classes.Utils.RoleMembershipHelper.SyncUsers(Int32 pageBoardID) +254
YAF.Install._default.Wizard_NextButtonClick(Object sender, WizardNavigationEventArgs e) in d:\wwwroot\aamro\site\forums\install\default.aspx.cs:192

Actually it's not a problem with the roles but rather the users. I thought it might have something to do with having multiple roles, membership, and profiles in my web.config. It seems like it's trying to add the user multiple times to the role.

<appSettings>
<add key="BoardID" value="1" />
<add key="EnableURLRewriting" value="false" />
<add key="databaseObjectQualifier" value="yaf_" />
<add key="databaseOwner" value="dbo" />
<add key="providerExceptionXML" value="ProviderExceptions.xml" />
<add key="UploadDir" value="~/upload/" />
<add key="configPassword" value="3839D765AC616C5C571CA0D13671BA3C" />
<add key="root" value="~/forum" />
</appSettings>

Yes, you'd need to write a custom membership provider. YAF will use any provide and has no specific method requirements.