I am very new to ASP.NET 3.5 and am currently struggling to create my first ASP.NET website using VWD, with all coding in VB. This is a migration of an existing application that already has about 1000 registered users. I plan to use the built-in ASP.NET Membership system, but I don't want these existing users to create new logins on the ASP.NET system as this would lead to data duplication problems. Instead, I want to programmatically create these users in such a way that they are linked to the existing data and then send out individual (automated) emails providing the new usernames and passwords. This would be a one-off process. All new users would create their logins via the normal CreateUserWizard control.
I suspect that I will need to write some code that exploits the Membership.CreateUser method and loops through a list of the existing users but I'm more than a little confused about how to do this. In particular, I don't know how to ...
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