Our online memberships are available for free. If you don't currently have an account, you can create one by clicking on the link to create a new user account. After you fill in the information on the form and create your account, you will be sent an email notification with a unique link to verify your email address. Once you verify your email address, your account is activated.

The email address and login name you enter must be unique. If either item already in use for another account, you will not be able to create your new account.

If you don't remember your password, you can have a reminder emailed to you. Our options for determining the appropriate password for your account have improved.

If you provide the email address for the password reminder email, you will be provided the password for the most recent account record matching the email address you enter. The previous "forgot my password" service did not necessarily return the best match when you had more than one user account with the same email address. The new method should provide a better guess for the appropriate password to send.

A better option for locating your password is using your login name, if you remember it. We now support sending a password reminder to the email address for a specified login name. To use this option, simply fill in your login name and click the "Email my password" button. The login service will retrieve the email address for that login name, and email the password reminder to it.

If either the entered email address or login name is not found in our account table, the login page will tell you so when you click the "Email my password" button.

Click the "login" button to login and set your USER cookie for our web domain.

The member services link for My registered user downloads cross references your account's registration records with the list of registered user downloads in CodeCentral, and provides your list of registered user downloads for your registered products.

Because we track all your downloads for you, and know when and if you've downloaded a specific item from CodeCentral, and we also know the update timestamp for each CodeCentral item, we can track your personal status for each download. This page is still a work in progress (I guess that makes it "Web 2.0!"). You can expect to see indicators for new and updated status being displayed for each of your registered user downloads in the near future.

I hope you find this new service valuable. It's a "one stop shop" to find all relevant downloads for your registered products.

Since 2001, we have been tracking user registrations with a product registration and licensing system code named "Sanctuary" internally. The first Sanctuary-enabled product was JBuilder 5. Delphi 6, C++Builder 6, Kylix 1 and 2 and Borland Enterprise Server 5 followed, and used Sanctuary version 1. Registration information from Version 2 (and up) of Sanctuary is now available to you online. Version 1 registration records are not available via member services.

All registrations you have performed on your "CDN account" (which is really a "CodeGear user account" used for other systems in addition to CDN) are attached to that account. The new service we provide allows you to see all products you have registered with a given account.

When you first connect to the site, you are prompted to login with your user account. After you login, you will see a page that includes your contact information for that active account, and options for viewing your registration information, or for viewing your duplicate user accounts, or viewing your codegear.com domain cookies and optionally clearing them.

When you have successfully logged in using a valid CDN account, your contact information is displayed at the top of the page. Click on the button that says "My Registered Products" to see all products you have registered with that account.

We now display this information in multiple pages for our loyal customers who have registered a lot of products.

    The registration table

When we started the developer network, we inherited a database design problem that allowed multiple user accounts to have the same email address. This has, of course, caused all kinds of difficulties for people trying to login with their email address when that email address is associated with multiple accounts and passwords. The duplicate user accounts information we now provide is the first small step toward solving that problem.

This page displays all accounts with the same email address as your current login. Your active account is not displayed in this list. Only additional accounts with the same email address as your active account are displayed. When you click the button, the columns listed below are what you will see for your duplicate accounts.

Eventually, we will provide an option for you to select your primary account and move all your other account information to that primary account, but that feature is not available yet.

CodeCentral also has personalized links for you when you are logged in to any Developer Network website. This link just points you to the home page for CodeCentral, where you can see all the "My" links for CodeCentral.

This link points to your personal page on our discussion forums, which shows the discussions in which you have participated. For more information on our discussion forums, see the launch announcement.

This link points to your personal area on the QualityCentral web site.

This link allows you to view, and optionally clear, the cookies we use to recognize you on our web sites. If you clear your cookies, you will have to log back in to see any of your personal options.

Use this link to end your session with the member services website. You will still have your USER cookie set, so you will still be recognized on our web sites, but if you want to edit any of your account information, you will need to log back in.

If you want to log out completely and clear all cookies, use the "Log out completely" link.

You can modify your contact information with this link. All items displayed on the account editing form can be changed. If you change your email address, you will receive another email verification message automatically, so you can re-activate your account.

The email address you enter must be unique. If it is already in use for another account, you will not be able to change your existing email address to it.

You can indicate your preference for the visibility level of your email address on this page. See the "email visibility" drop down options to indicate how your email address should be treated.

This link allows you to change your password and login name for your account, and edit the other information that helps you remember the values to use in your login. Another interesting tidbit on this page is the date (and time, for more recent members) you created your account with us.

The login name you enter must be unique. If it is already in use for another account, you will not be able to change your existing login name to it.

This relative link on the account editing form allows you to customize your communication preferences.

    Turning your contact status back "on"

After you have logged in, you can click on the link to enter the developer network as that user, and whatever activities you perform that change content, such as commenting, rating, voting, downloading, submitting articles, QualityCentral reports, or CodeCentral entries events will be assigned to that account.

If you have multiple accounts, such as one for personal use and one for your job, you can use this link to switch your active account.

This link passes a parameter into the cookie viewing page to clear your cookies, and then shows that no cookies are set for our domain after that. It also logs you out of member services.