ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider.DeleteUser Method

Removes a user's membership information from the Active Directory data store.

Namespace: System.Web.Security
Assembly: System.Web (in system.web.dll)

public override bool DeleteUser (
	string username,
	bool deleteAllRelatedData
)
public boolean DeleteUser (
	String username, 
	boolean deleteAllRelatedData
)
public override function DeleteUser (
	username : String, 
	deleteAllRelatedData : boolean
) : boolean
Not applicable.

Parameters

username

The name of the user to delete.

deleteAllRelatedData

This parameter is ignored by the DeleteUser method.

Return Value

true if the user was deleted; otherwise, false if the user was not found in the data store.

Exception typeCondition

ArgumentException

username is empty, or exceeds the maximum length for the user name (usually 256 characters).

- or -

username contains commas.

- or -

The user name is mapped to the userPrincipalName attribute and the userName parameter contains backslashes.

ArgumentNullException

username is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

COMException

An error occurred while attempting to delete the user.

InvalidOperationException

The DeleteUser method is called before the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider instance is initialized.

The DeleteUser method immediately removes the user identified by the username parameter. Since the Active Directory data store does not store user information in separate areas of the directory, the deleteAllRelatedData parameter is ignored, although it must be set to either true or false when calling the DeleteUser method.

The ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider class finds the user instance to delete by performing a single-level search for the user name in the users container determined by the connection string. See the ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider class topic for more information about connection strings.

username must be 64 characters or less.

Security noteSecurity Note:

You cannot delete users unless the credentials used to connect to the Active Directory server have either Domain Administrator rights (not recommended) or the "delete child instances" access right.

Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0

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