ResetPassword Method

Article
11/12/2009

Resets a user's password to a new, automatically generated password.

Namespace: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Profiles
Assembly: Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime (in Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Overrides Function ResetPassword ( _
    username As String, _
    answer As String _
) As String

'Usage
Dim instance As UpmMembershipProvider
Dim username As String
Dim answer As String
Dim returnValue As String

returnValue = instance.ResetPassword(username, _
    answer)

public override string ResetPassword(
    string username,
    string answer
)

public:
virtual String^ ResetPassword(
    String^ username, 
    String^ answer
) override

public override function ResetPassword(
    username : String, 
    answer : String
) : String

Parameters

username
Type: System..::.String
The user to reset the password for. Cannot be nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).

answer
Type: System..::.String
The password answer for the specified user.

Return Value

Type: System..::.String
The new password for the specified user.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentNullException	username is nullNothingnullptra null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
ArgumentException	EnablePasswordReset is set to false.
ArgumentException	username is an empty string or contains invalid characters.

Remarks

Resets a user's password to a new, automatically generated password. The username is trimmed. To reset the password EnablePasswordReset must be set to true.

Permissions

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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