Question

I am using Membership API with OpenId implementation in my project built on MVC2 framework.
Other than the username , I need some other fields to be associated with the user at the time of registration.

I am not sure though but I think Profile system in asp.net is built for this type of requirement. Also, I see a table with other membership tables named ‘aspnet_profile’.

I added following settings in the application web.config to enable the profile :

<profile enabled="true">
      <properties>
        <add  name="FullName" allowAnonymous="false"/>

      </properties>

    </profile>

As said before, application need some additional data to be associated with the user, so when creating a user using Membership API, I added few more lines of code for making entry into profile table

System.Web.Security.MembershipCreateStatus status = MembershipService.CreateUser(userModel.UserName, userModel.Password, userModel.UserName);

                   if (status == System.Web.Security.MembershipCreateStatus.Success)
                   {
                       FormsService.SignIn(userModel.UserName, true);
                       Session["Username"] = userModel.UserName;

                       dynamic profile = ProfileBase.Create(MembershipService.GetUser(userModel.UserName).UserName);
                       profile.FullName = userModel.UserFullName;
                       profile.Save();

                       RedirectToAction("Tech", "Home");



                   }

But I don’t see any line added in the aspnet_profile table in the database. Also, I wanted to ask if this is the preferred way of adding additional data along with default membership data

Answer 1

I made it work by making some changes related to default profile provider name in the web.config:

<profile enabled="true" defaultProvider="AspNetSqlProfileProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" applicationName="/" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" />
      </providers>

      <properties>
        <add  name="FullName" allowAnonymous="false"/>

      </properties>

    </profile>

Also I added one more line between call to ProfileBase.Create function and setting the Profile.FullName;

profile.Initialize(userModel.userName, true);

I finally saw an entry in the aspnet_profile table for the newly registered user 🙂