Membership.GetUserNameByEmail Method
Assembly: System.Web (in system.web.dll)
public static String GetUserNameByEmail ( String emailToMatch )
public static function GetUserNameByEmail ( emailToMatch : String ) : String
Not applicable.
Parameters
- emailToMatch
The e-mail address to search for.
Return Value
The user name where the e-mail address for the user matches the specified e-mail address. If no match is found, a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) is returned.GetUserNameByEmail can be used to retrieve the user name for a membership user in the case where a user does not know their user name, but does know their e-mail address. If more than one user in the data store has the same e-mail address, the first user name encountered is returned.
Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed from all parameter values.
The following code example retrieves the user name for a specified e-mail address.
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