Re: Custom Profile Provider

Hi,

thats prolly why the built-in provider does not care about fields but serializes all data in a single string. If your provider is so tightly coupled to the actual layout of your profile data, i wonder if a provider makes sense at all. Maybe a for your needs tailored library makes much sense.

Don't do providers for providers sake.

That said - there is a sample profile provider implementations from MS that store data in separate fields...
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/01/10/435038.aspx

Haven't looked at it - but maybe their code gives you pointers in the right direction.

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Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
http://www.leastprivilege.com

I'm working against an Oracle database, trying to implement a custom
profile provider. I have the membership and roles providers working,
and in fact I can get the profile provider to work as well. I'm
wondering, however, how this works logically.

It seems that when I add an new property to my web.config file, it
picks that up correctly in the application. However, unless I
implement that in the profile provider, it will not work. It seems a
bit useless, then, that for every property in the web.config section,
I have to set up multiple functions (get/set) for that property to
work correctly. The end result is a lot of extra code. I can't see a
way to do a mass-update of all the data at one time.

Also, the custom provider from the MSDN website actually deletes the
data from profiledata table, and then does an insert to put the data
back. The result of the default code, then, is that:

Profile.FirstName = "bob";
Profile.LastName = "marley";
Profile.Save();
This results in only 'marley' being saved. Bob is lost due to the
deletion. I've modified the code to update instead of delete, but I
still have the problem above.. for every new field I add, I have to
modify my provider to handle it. Surely there is a better way to what
I am doing? I'd hate to have to hit the database dozens of times
whenever I want to update a user's record.

Aaron



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