OK before I start tackling this zeee and others, I have a question.
Myself and 2 others have been building a website in our spare time now for almost a year specifically for online gamers, we have a boat load of tools for gamers to use outside of their game or games of choice.
We have built all of the tools on the site based around the default security provider that ASP.Net 2.0 with MS SQL 2005 db back end has built in.
The site is damn near pure data driven so everything is very dynamic in its manor.
We have made big time use of that wonderfull little line of code.
User.Identity.Name
This pushes and pulls likely 99% of our data from the database.
Now we started to undertake the process of building our General Community Forums, and of course since it's theme is based around the online gaming community we are going to offer Private Clan Forum Hosting to our members. But, building a forum is, well.... A pile of work, and I have been looking at YAF for several weeks now and I really want to use it on our site.
So the big question is, with the information provided in this post will I be able to add YAF to our current site successfully. And with code behind take the currrent means of membership registration (ASP.Net 2.0 drag and drop control) and duplicate that users infomation into the YAF membership provider.
The idea is once registered with our site, the user is granted the ability to make full use of the Community forums, but thier security also travels with them as a registered visitor status to all other forums hosted on our site.
If this can be done successfully then users could post on the community forums, still make use of the User.Identity.Name for all of the other site tools, and everything would be just peachy.
The next bit of code to tackle would be the auto creation of additional YAF forums via registered users who want to have their clan forums hosted on our site.