Question

I am using ASP.net membership, but I want to store additional information for client while registration instead of default columns as membership provider does, so how can I customize the dbo.aspnet_Users table and change the code so that it doesn’t affect the other functionality and works fine?

Could somebody suggest me on it how can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Use an ASP.NET Profile-Provider.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211020111657/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/101106-1.aspx

You can store any kind of additional information even binary(images).
I’ve used The SqlProfileProvide myself in my currect application to let the user chose his startpage self.
Therefor i only needed to add this to the web.config:

<profile defaultProvider="AspNetSqlProfileProvider">
  <providers>
    <clear/>
    <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="RM2ConnectionString" applicationName="/ERP"/>
  </providers>
  <properties>
    <add name="Startpage"/>
  </properties>
</profile>

And i could write this property in codebehind:

if(User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
{
    HttpContext.Current.Profile.SetPropertyValue("Startpage", startPage); //startPage is a String
    HttpContext.Current.Profile.Save();
}

and read it in the following way:

if(User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
{
    Dim user = Membership.GetUser();
    Dim startPage = HttpContext.Current.Profile.GetPropertyValue("Startpage") as String;
}

You can store anything you want, see the link above for further informations.