I know there are pros and cons for both methods. There are also many benefits to WSPs, even for real-life, professional, high-impact web apps. And 8 out of 10 of the issues people raise with WSPs are due to a cronic unfamiliarity with aspnet_compiler.exe .

I'm using YAF in two projects now, which are WAPs. I don't want YAF to be the application. I want YAF to be a set of controls that I plop into my application (which can be a WAP if I choose, or not). YAF's current packaging makes this easy. I have its core assemblies, and I have the UI, which I can customize or throw out altogether if I wish. When I build my application into a WAP, YAF's pages are included in the build just like my own pages. YAF becomes part of my WAP.

There's no "migrating to a WAP" involved at all; just a ./forum/ directory in my app containing YAF's UI-- no different from any of the other files I'm building.

The key thing is that those who want YAF to be a WAP can build it that way right now. 100% of users can use it. If Jaben changes to a WAP model, then 40% of users can use it. Migrating from a WAP to a WSP is much more difficult.

Can i upgrade it to 1.9.3 Immediately?

No need to upgrade to version 1.9.1.7 and 1.9.2 and .....?

Thank you guys for good staff

Also remember its not a final release, so not meant for production environemnts.

"It's a case of RTFM.. the only problem being we don't have a manual!"

When I post FP:Mek in a topic, I'm leaving my footprint there so I can track it once I get into coding/supporting. (Yes I stole this off Ederon 🙂 )

I'm VERY excited about your project and looking forward to integrating YAF into some of my other .NET membership projects; what I'm wondering is how difficult it would be for me to adapt other providers - specifically Screwturn's wiki and it's member model.

Screwturn has already stated that they won't be supporting the ASPNETDB, and I know you folks use their wiki here. Has anyone on the YAF dev team looked under the hood at the wiki model? If so, any opinion on how difficult an integration would be for an intermediate level hack (like me!)??

...or am I totally off my rocker on this one?

Thanks in advance!

Screwturn Wiki uses her own provider model. I've made my custom Screwturn Wiki user provider, it just calls membership provider configured for ASP.NET application. If you are interested in trying it or helping with it, just PM me and we'll get in touch.

Short answer - it's easy to integrate ASP.NET provider model with SC Wiki one. It's matter of few dozens lines of code.

How do you merge the ASP Profile that I already have with the YAF profile? I didn't merge anything relating to Profiles from development.config. I get an exception in YAF.Classes.Utils.YafContext:GetProfile function - can't cast ProfileCommon to YafUserProfile.

Here is a simple bug I think -

YAF.Classes.Utils.YafContext:ForumRoot function (line 786-789 context.cs). I can't see how if ( path.StartsWith( "~" ) ) will never get executed after the line at 786 which is if ( path [0] != '/' ) path = path.Insert( 0, "/" );. Also, I had to change 785 to path += YAF.Classes.Config.Root; to get my installation going.

I'm on VS2008 and .NET 3.5. And it works mostly. I have a couple of issues like the Forums not showing under a category. I will send back any bugs I find/fix.

I downloaded YAF v1.9.3 ALPHA (Dated 12/22/2007) which is having Membership roles. It is working fine. I want to merge that into my application. In the previous YAF which does not have Membership worked fine after merging into my application when i modified the root in yafnet.config. But in the YAF v1.9.3 ALPHA it is not having yafnet.config.Can you plz tell me where to modify that.And can i merge YAF's web.config file to my applications web.config file as one application should have only one web.config file.

Thanks

The user 'bryan' is already in role 'Administrators'.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Configuration.Provider.ProviderException: The user 'bryan' is already in role 'Administrators'.

Source Error:

Line 190: {

Line 191: RoleMembershipHelper.SyncRoles( PageBoardID );

Line 192: RoleMembershipHelper.SyncUsers( PageBoardID );

Line 193: }

Line 194: e.Cancel = false;

Source File: d:\wwwroot\aamro\site\forums\install\default.aspx.cs Line: 192

Stack Trace:

[ProviderException: The user 'bryan' is already in role 'Administrators'.]

System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider.AddUsersToRolesCore(SqlConnection conn, String usernames, String roleNames) +2238010

System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider.AddUsersToRoles(String[] usernames, String[] roleNames) +705

System.Web.Security.Roles.AddUserToRole(String username, String roleName) +341

YAF.Classes.Utils.RoleMembershipHelper.MigrateUsersFromDT(Int32 pageBoardID, Boolean approved, DataTable dt) +3062

YAF.Classes.Utils.RoleMembershipHelper.SyncUsers(Int32 pageBoardID) +254

YAF.Install._default.Wizard_NextButtonClick(Object sender, WizardNavigationEventArgs e) in d:\wwwroot\aamro\site\forums\install\default.aspx.cs:192

I have an existing website (classic ASP) with a SQL Server DB backend for authentication. I have existing authentication sprocs and very specific user table (username/password).

To integrate YAF, will I need to build a custom Membership Provider with methods specific to what YAF might expect in a Membership Provider?

Thanks in advance for more information and direction.