An Extended Look at the Profile Object

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An Extended Look at the Profile Object - Part 1

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by Bilal Haidar
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Conclusion

In this first part of our series on the ASP.NET personalization feature, we defined what the Profile object is, when to use it, and how it is different from the Session object. In addition, we examined how to define both simple properties and group properties by updating the profile configuration section of the web.config file.

In the coming series, we will discuss more advanced topics of the Profile object, such as defining custom objects in the profile configuration section, and how to retrieve, delete, update, search, and otherwise manage profiles. We will also discuss how to configure the Profile object to work with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 instead of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, how to move an anonymous profile to an authenticated profile, and many more interesting features.

Happy Dot Netting!

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Title: HELP
Name: Ahamd
Date: 2010-03-29 8:22:16 AM
Comment:
Hi, I used this tutorial, but i get an error msg as, "Unable to connect to SQL Server database." I do not hav a SQL instance in my system. I'll hav to connect to a server in a network PC. So plz tell me what modifications i'll hav to do to run the code.

Title: Thank you
Name: blad3runn69
Date: 2009-01-14 10:30:07 PM
Comment:
Thank you for the info and code Bilal, very helpful and muchly appreciated. :)

Title: An Extended Look at the Profile Object - Part 1
Name: swapnil
Date: 2008-08-18 10:00:09 AM
Comment:
good one.

Title: Same Topic, Different Framework
Name: RichardW
Date: 2008-04-25 5:39:37 PM
Comment:
Thank you. I always seem to get stuck on context. This got me past the context issues of Profiles in ASP.NET Membership.

Wondering if anyone in house has thought to go in depth on this same topic of Membership/Profiles but from the context of Ajax and Silverlight as the framework using ASP.NET 3.5 in the background. At the Olympics this year, NBC will be streaming with Silverlight... It's gonna be a boost for the technology, would like to come up to speed with others on it using the foundations of ASP.NET 3.5/Ajax to control it.

Title: Still don't see the point
Name: Craig
Date: 2008-03-27 9:42:08 PM
Comment:
Good article but I really don't see the point of the profile object. If you're going to register users on a web site you'll have built that in to your DB schema and be authenticating them against that. Therefore, no point in having some bot do it for you.

If you're an anonymous user, how on earth can a system know who you are when you return to pick out your profile data again? I bet it's only available if you return within the session timeout period. In which case, use sessions, it's MUCH easier. It's becoming like you need a degree in computer science just to write a simple web page with .NET.

Title: Profiles with Web Applications
Name: Mark
Date: 2007-06-11 9:44:59 AM
Comment:
Did you ever notice that if you use a web application instead of a website, the profile object is not available? Instead, you can access the currently logged on user profile through context.current.profile. The problem is, if you want to change information during the registration process, you can't do it. Do you have any way to change info in the profile of a user who isn't logged on using a web application?

Title: Thanks
Name: john
Date: 2007-06-11 8:23:03 AM
Comment:
This helped me a lot to understand profile object.

Title: Fantastic Inroduction Article
Name: |__Roshan__|
Date: 2007-02-09 4:04:06 AM
Comment:
This a fantastic intoduction article of the new ASP.NET personalization feature, the Profile object..

Title: Good Stuff!
Name: Adi
Date: 2006-07-02 2:37:24 AM
Comment:
Nice intro! Easy and enjoyable to follow especially for .net newbie like me :)
Thanks Bilal!

Title: Re: All
Name: Bilal Haidar [MVP]
Date: 2006-03-16 5:23:08 AM
Comment:
I am very glad you are happy with this article.

Thank you all.

Title: Good
Name: Lajpathrai.Y
Date: 2006-03-16 4:43:37 AM
Comment:
Thanks a lot to author. really a good explanation. will useful to freshers

Title: Great Intro
Name: Ed
Date: 2006-01-18 8:38:59 PM
Comment:
Perfect extension of the MS explanation (which was lacking a bit).

Title: Comment
Name: Mihir Solanki
Date: 2005-12-24 9:17:06 PM
Comment:
Thanks, Perfect introduction

Title: Comment
Name: Rainer
Date: 2005-11-17 10:31:58 AM
Comment:
Fine. But I am looking now for an easy way to work with these additional user profile properties. Like: Show me all users with zip code x.

Title: Nice article
Name: Matthew Lee
Date: 2005-11-08 4:19:40 AM
Comment:
Nice, Informative stuff...