How to integrate a Web application with VGWP ?

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To integrate Visual Guard Web Portal in your web application you have to:

Add the assemblies of Visual Guard as references of your project.
Integrate Visual Guard in the code of your application.
Create a Visual Guard repository and declare your application using the
Visual Guard console. This repository will contain all security items (users,
roles, permissions …) of your application.
Generate the Visual Guard configuration files
using the Visual Guard console. These configuration files will be
needed to connect your application to the repository.
Grant read/write permissions to the repository.

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Authenticating a user with Visual Guard Web Portal.

using Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Membership;
using Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Repository;
using Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Token;

VGWebPortal portal = VGSecurityManager.Runtime.WebPortals.GetWebPortal(this.WebPortalId);
if (null != portal)
{
  String WebPortalURL = portal.Url;
  WebPortalURL = String.Concat(WebPortalURL, "?", "WReply=ReplyURL.aspx", "&", "hl=en-us");
  HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect(WebPortalURL, true);
}

VGToken vgToken = VGSecurityManager.Runtime.Principal.Token;
if (null != vgToken)
{
  string token = vgToken.Data;
  NameValueCollection data = new NameValueCollection();
  data.Add("VGToken", token);
  RedirectAndPOST(this.Page, this.RedirectURL, data);
}

public void RedirectAndPOST(Page page, string destinationUrl, NameValueCollection data)
{
    string strForm = PreparePOSTForm(destinationUrl, data);
    page.Controls.Add(new LiteralControl(strForm));
}

private String PreparePOSTForm(string url, NameValueCollection data)
{
    string formID = "PostForm";
    StringBuilder strForm = new StringBuilder();
    strForm.Append("<form id=\"" + formID + "\" name=\"" + formID + "\" action=\"" + url + "\" method=\"POST\">");
    foreach (string key in data)
    {
        strForm.Append("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"" + key + "\" value=\"" + data[key] + "\">");
    }
    strForm.Append("</form>");

    StringBuilder strScript = new StringBuilder();
    strScript.Append("<script language='javascript'>");
    strScript.Append("var v" + formID + " = document." + formID + ";");
    strScript.Append("v" + formID + ".submit();");
    strScript.Append("</script>");

    return strForm.ToString() + strScript.ToString();
}