Here we go:
 
1) We want to be able to create user accounts on our own. When we are creating new user accounts for our corporate wesite, we would like that program to be able to also create new user accounts in the forum. I believe I read on your site that there is a class that I can put into a vb.net app that will allow me to do this. Is this correct?
 
2) On our corporate website, which is written in ColdFusion, we would like to give a user, who is already logged in, a link to the forum. So we want them already logged in. How can we do this? We do not want them to have to log in manually, but we will have struggles using your classes because we are in cold fusion on our website. Taking that farther, we do not even want the login/logout functions to appear on the forum.
 
3) What about bringing. We want the Forum to look like us. How easy is this? Also, what are the costs for a non-profit if they want to be able to remove your copyright info so it looks like us???
 
 

1. yes, and it is called the Site Integration Package (SIP) you can see how it can be done here
2. very easy, as you can create a auto login cookie with the SIP as well in a .NET app. So what you can do is you can do the following:
   
   1. create a db table (GUID, login , password), and insert a GUID (generated by Cold Fusion) and login name + password (from user input on your codefusion page) once a user is logged in on your site.
      
   2. then, do a simple redirection to a vb.net page with the GUID appended as the querystring.
      
   3. From the vb.NET page, retrieve the login name and password from the table using the GUID, perform a simulated login using the SIP (a cookie will be created for you), and delete the db record.
      
   4. At the end of the page, redirect the person back where he is from. Now since he as the needed cookie for automatic login, the forum will recognize him.
   5. To remove the login/logout link from the forum -> just delete it from the header
      
3. You can simply create a HTML header/footer (wrapper around the whole forum), and the forum will look just like part of your site.
4. email me (info at my domain name) for info on the unbranded license and the discount for a non-profit org.
   

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