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URL Object Serialization: An Effortless Approach to User Account Confirmation

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A URL Object Serialization component that provides compression and encryption of CLR objects, enabling embedding within URLs. Also includes a user account purging component that performs the periodic removal of unconfirmed user accounts, and a website that demonstrates the user account confirmation.
#region File and License Information
/*
<File>
	<Copyright>Copyright © 2007, Daniel Vaughan. All rights reserved.</Copyright>
	<License see="prj:///Documentation/License.txt"/>
	<Owner Name="Daniel Vaughan" Email="dbvaughan@gmail.com"/>
	<CreationDate>2008-01-18 21:09:26Z</CreationDate>
	<LastSubmissionDate>$Date: $</LastSubmissionDate>
	<Version>$Revision: $</Version>
</File>
*/
#endregion

using System.Configuration;

namespace Orpius.Web.Configuration
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Provides configuration information for the User Purging system.
	/// </summary>
	class UserPurgerConfigSection : ConfigurationSection
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Gets the list of providers as defined in the configuration.
		/// </summary>
		/// <value>The providers as defined in the configuration.</value>
		[ConfigurationProperty("providers")]
		public ProviderSettingsCollection Providers
		{
			get
			{
				return (ProviderSettingsCollection)base["providers"];
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets or sets the default provider. That is, the name
		/// of the provider that will be used.
		/// </summary>
		/// <value>The default provider.</value>
		[StringValidator(MinLength = 1)]
		[ConfigurationProperty("defaultProvider", 
			DefaultValue = "AspNetMembershipUserPurger")]
		public string DefaultProvider
		{
			get
			{
				return (string)base["defaultProvider"];
			}
			set
			{
				base["defaultProvider"] = value;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets or sets how old a user account must be before
		/// it can be purged.
		/// </summary>
		/// <value>The age at which an account may be purged.</value>
		[ConfigurationProperty("purgeOlderThanMinutes",
			DefaultValue = "20160", IsRequired = false)]
		public double PurgeOlderThan
		{
			get
			{
				return (double)base["purgeOlderThanMinutes"];
			}
			set
			{
				base["purgeOlderThanMinutes"] = value;
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets or sets the time between runs, 
		/// which is measure in minutes.
		/// </summary>
		/// <value>The time between runs.</value>
		[ConfigurationProperty("periodMinutes",
			DefaultValue = "1440", IsRequired = false)]
		[IntegerValidator(MinValue = 1,
			MaxValue = 525600)] /* 525600 = 60 (1 hour) * 24 (1 day) * 365 ≈ 1 year */
		public int PeriodMinutes
		{
			get
			{
				return (int)base["periodMinutes"];
			}
			set
			{
				base["periodMinutes"] = value;
			}
		}
	}
}

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