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Membership.DeleteUser Method (String, Boolean)

Deletes a user from the database.

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

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

Parameters

username
Type: System.String

The name of the user to delete.

deleteAllRelatedData
Type: System.Boolean

true to delete data related to the user from the database; false to leave data related to the user in the database.

Return Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if the user was deleted; otherwise, false.

ExceptionCondition
ArgumentException

username is an empty string or contains a comma (,).

ArgumentNullException

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

Users deleted from the database are only deleted from the configured applicationName.

If deleteAllRelatedData is true, user data stored in the database for the Roles, Profile, or WebPart personalization is also deleted when you are using the SqlRoleProvider, SqlProfileProvider, and SqlPersonalizationProvider objects for data storage.

The following code example deletes the currently logged-on user and all related data.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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