An Extended Look at the Profile Object - Part 3
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Configuring Default Profile Provider with Microsoft SQL Server 2000

User Profiles are configured to be stored in a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express database that is placed in the App_Code folder of an ASP.NET 2.0 Web application. The content of this folder is dynamically compiled at runtime.

User Profiles can be configured to communicate with another database store. User Profiles use the provider model; then it is easy to unplug the default provider and replace it with a custom provider.

ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2 ships with one Profile provider which is the SqlProfileProvider. One can even create ones own custom Profile provider by inheriting from the ProfileProvider class. Sometimes, using an Oracle database for your Web application might be needed. What we need to do to make user Profiles work with an Oracle database is to create that custom Profile provider.

In this section, I will provide a step-by-step demonstration on how to configure the default provider which is the SqlProfileProvider to work with the Microsoft SQL Server 2000.

ASP.NET 2.0 framework ships with a utility used to configure an SQL Server 2000 database to store personalization information and mainly Profile information. This utility is named aspnet_regsql and is located in the following location:

{Drive Letter}:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\[.Net Framework]\

When this utility is run the first window that appears is shown in Figure 2 below.

Figure 2 - ASP.NET 2.0 SQL Server Setup Wizard

Press Next > and you will see Figure 3 below.

Figure 3. Configure or Remove a SQL Server for Application Services

Press Next > and you will see Figure 4 below.

Figure 4 - Specify Connection Information

A database named aspnetdb is chosen that was created previously using Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager. In this section, we choose the computer name (server name), type of connection whether Windows authentication or SQL Server authentication, and finally the database instance where the tables representing the user Profile are to be stored. Hit Next > and continue the next simple steps.

By doing this process, the tables used by the Profile object to store users Profile features are saved on the SQL Server.


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Title: An Extended Look at the Profile Object - Part 3   
Name: raja mohamed
Date: 2006-03-17 2:04:47 AM
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Title: How delete a single property?   
Name: Massimo
Date: 2005-12-27 8:16:05 PM
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I cannot find how to delete a user properties from the datastore. Do I miss something?






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