.Net SQL Membership Provider custom provider property

Question

<profile>      
  <providers>
    <clear/>
    <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/"/>
  </providers>
  <properties>
    <add name="FirstName"/>
    <add name="LastName"/>
  </properties>
</profile>  

I have the code snippet above in my webconfig file. I am attempting to set the FirstName property in codebehind on a register.aspx page. Like this:

Profile.FirstName = ((TextBox)RegisterUser.CreateUserStep.ContentTemplateContainer.FindControl("FirstName")).Text;  

VS says Profile is in System.Web.Profile Namespace. I then use it like this "System.Web.Profile.FirstName", but says first name does not exist in System.Web.Profile.FirstName namespace.

How do I set the property and later retrieve it?

Answer 1

Profile should be a property with an autogenerated class based on System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase which contains the members you defined in your web.config file. Here is the link on msdn: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/system.web.profile.profilebase.aspx

But i can remember that i also had the problem, that the file is not generated by visual studio. I found this post where you can see a WebProfile generator as an extension for the build process. Maybe that can help you.

Answer 2

In order to get strongly typed access to the profile items you need to use a tool such as the Web Profile Builder .

In Website projects Asp.net automatically creates the strongly typed proxy classes but they are not automatically created in Web Application projects.

Answer 3

You can do something like:

ProfileCommon p = (ProfileCommon)ProfileBase.Create(username, true);

p.FirstName = "firstname";

p.Save();

if the user already has a profile, the create call will return the existing profile, else it will create a new profile.

ProfileCommon is a autogenerated class.