Re: Custom Profile Provider

That side of things is no problem. When I do that, I actually appear to be getting out what I expect to when I try Profile.SomeCustomCollection...

Its the population of that object with real information from my data provider.

Everything wants to be in a namevalue collection. I am curious as to why they didnt allow you to return a Profile, eg, they feed you a customer id, or custoer name, and expect you to return a Profile object.

Instead they cripple the provider interface and dont let you get that low yourself. The problem is that I want to use my OR mapper to quickly load up a CustomProfile object from db, and pass that object back.

Profile.GetType() already returns CustomProfile, its just empty.

Weston




Dominick Baier wrote:
If you derive from ProfileBase and set the inherits in web.config you can access the values just using your properties...what's the problem?
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Dominick Baier (http://www.leastprivilege.com)

Developing More Secure Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications (http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/9989.asp)

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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