How to get ASP.NET MembershipUser by email

Question

How can I retreive an ASP.NET MembershipUser by supplying the email address, none of the overloads of `Membership.GetUser()` take email address.

Accepted Answer

```
string thisUser= Membership.GetUserNameByEmail("email") 
```

should do the trick, Then you can use

```
 MembershipUser mu = Membership.GetUser(thisUser);
```

Solution