[RESOLVED] membership provider question

[vbbit]

Hi I have a question about the membership provider that's built in with asp.net. On the creatuserwizard control, it doesnt have city, state on it, and I want to collect that info upfront when they sign up using that wizard control.

My question is, once the user clicks on "Create User" button, it will store the data in the asp.net_user table, but how do I store the city and state and where to?

[gep13]

Hey,

In addition to the membership provider, you can use the profile provider to collect this data. You can add steps to the createuserwizard to collect this data.

Have a look at the link in my signature for info on how to use the profile provider.

Hope that helps!

Gary

[vbbit]

OK, now my question is in asp.net if the user is created, it automatically adds stuff to the "Membership" table. I want the user to activate their email address first before they can login. How do I do that with the membership provider?

[vbbit]

oh and how come I don't have the profilecommon?

[gep13]

Hey,

I would recommend that you take a look here:

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/062508-1.aspx

Particularly part 11, as I believe this will cover everything that you need to in order to enable a confirmation email.

As for why you don't have ProfileCommon, I would suggest that this is because you don't have the right imports statement. If you hover over ProfileCommon, does Visual Studio not offer you some help?

Gary

[vbbit]

I think because I am using web application as opoosed to website that's why profile common is not available.

[gep13]

Hey,

What makes you think that?

Although the application sample I pointed you to uses a Web Site Template, I believe I also have a working sample using a Web Application Template, although, I would have to dig this up on my other machine.

Now that you mention it though, I do readins something about this ages ago. I will see what I can dig up.

Gary

[gep13]

Hey,

Have you enabled the Profile Provider?

The documentation here, suggests that ProfileCommon inherits from System.Web.Profile:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...b.profile.aspx

Have you included this in your project?

Gary

[vbbit]

Yes, gep I did enable the provider, and profilecommon, but like I said it's because I am doing web application and not websites.. does that make sense?

[gep13]

Hey,

I know what you are referring to, but like I said, I don't think this should be an issue. I am not at my own computer just now, so I don't have Visual Studio installed, so can't knock up a sample for you. When I get a chance, I will see what I can do for you.

Gary

[vbbit]

hey gep, have u found this out yet?

[gep13]

Hey,

I have just had a quick play this morning (still need to do some investigation), but it would appear that ProfileCommon doesn't work within a Web Application.

My initial investigation has turned up, ProfileBase, which can be used to save the Profile values:

            ProfileBase userProfile = (ProfileBase)ProfileBase.Create(CreateUserWizard1.UserName, true);
            userProfile.Save();

But I need to do some more looking into it.

Gary

[gep13]

Hey,

Ok, looks like this could be a known issue, to the extent that people have created an Add-In that will do the work for you.

Looks like when you use an ASP.Net WebSite Template, the Profile Settings are compiled into the ProfileCommon object dynamically, and are available at runtime in a strongly typed manner. This doesn't happen directly when you use a Web Application Template.

However, this:

http://weblogs.asp.net/joewrobel/arc...-projects.aspx

Should hopefully help you out!

Gary

[vbbit]

Yeah.. I am using ProfileBase

[gep13]

Hey,

Glad to hear that you got it working!!

Gary