Custom Profile Provider

Ok, when I first started to play with the Provider model for all things membership in ASP.NET 2.0, I have to say I was pleased... but I must have missed something here...

I've got two questions...

1) I'd like to have profile be a strongly typed complex object derived from profilebase. I've edited in web.config to change <provider name="" inherits="MyNamespace.CustomProfile">.

I would like to simply construct this object with my homebrew OR Mapper, which I beleive I can get the context (a user id, or a username)

But the only way I can return data from the ProfileProvider is through a collection of name/value pairs? That seems extremely lame.

Should I just scrap the profiles all together and somehow assign equivalent of a profile on Authentication?
any one have any advice that way? It looks like it was designed to be able to use custom strongly typed complex objects, I just don't know how to populate the object.

2) How does one DEBUG a custom profile provider extension? I build both the parent web project in debug mode, as well as the custom provider as well. When I set a breakpoint and hit start, it'll always say either "No symbols loaded for this document" or "There is no executable code at this line numbers"

I want it to break in Initialize() method, when should I expect it to break (application start is what I would have guessed)




Please any input would be greatly appreciated.
Weston
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