Question

I am looking for a way to search through every users profile using the standard ASP.Net Profile Provider. Is this possible, or should I create a new Profile Provider?

Here is the scenario:

• User registers
• User sets up their profile (favorite color, favorite book, country, etc)
• User is then able to browse other users who, for instance, have a favorite color of ‘Green’

I would like to use this all through the membership/profile providers without having to code against the database directly.

Answer 1

The functionality you want is included in the Profile API.

You can get an individual users profile using:

HttpProfile profile = Profile.GetProfile('Fred'); 

You can get all the profiles using:

var allUsers = Membership.GetAllUsers(); foreach (MembershipUser user in allUsers) {     var prof = ProfileBase.Create(user.UserName, true); }