There is a free, open source, portal named Rainbow Portal ( http://www.rainbowportal.net - http://www.rainbowportal.net ) that is based in the Microsoft IBuySpy Portal.  It is written in ASP.NET and C#.

It would be interesting to use WWF as a forum connected to a site using Rainbow.  You could obviously do this by running them as two separate applications, forcing the user to login to the portal and then again to the forum.  It would be interesting to see what it would take to connect the logins for the two so they only have to login once.

Does anyone have any info on how I might start to approach this code?  I'd prefer to just leave WWF along and make changes to the Rainbow in C# code to use the WWF database for login.

I can do the C# part.  I was just wondering if anyone had any info on where to start with the DB aspect of this?  Are passwords encrypted in WWF's DB?  What about cookies?  Would we somehow need to post a cookie on the client so both Rainbow and WWF would recognize them as logged in?

Maybe try it in some subcategory for WWF. This forum is just about asp.net, but to answer your question: "I don't know how WWF works, since I develop everything myself..".

So I'd better shut up then

first.. realize you wont be able to get ASP 3.0-based WWF and an ASP.NET based "portal"-look to work on the same page.....

second.. to mimic the WWF forum login, all you had to do in version 6.x was to write to a cookie the column "User_Code" from the tblAuthor page.....  so you would have your (this rainbow portal thing) login write that cookie as well as its own login thing

good looking getting those databases lined up or combined though... personally i think what you are getting into is way too much work and not really compatable... but that may be just me

But, now wwf encrypts passwords with the functions/hash1way.asp file. So you would have to convert that file to asp.net C# before you even start thinking about querying the database.

Mart.