Hi,

All of us who write web application enforce some mechanism by which we store a user's information for the period he is accessing the application. This may be from simply storing the User's ID to say a Welcome <username> to maintaining his preferences, shopping cart etc.,

So far, the Session object has been pretty useful to accomplish this task. With Whidbey (ASP.NET 2.0), there is a new feature Profile which allows us to store per-user settings to be used throughout the application. Settings can also be stored in an anonymous profile while users are not logged in, and then migrated to a logged-in user profile at a later time.

For more information, please check my article Whidbey: Tired with Sessions? - Use the new Profile property to store user information.

Thanks.

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regards,
Harish

http://geekswithblogs.net/ranganh

Harish,

A rookie question that you certainly know:

I try to paste in the web.config file the following code, copied from the VWD help file:

      <profile>
        <properties>
          <add name="PostalCode" type="System.String" allowAnonymous="true" />
        </properties>
      </profile>

I immediately get an error on the add  keyword, stating that properties cannot contain a child element  because the parent element's content model is empty.

What does that mean? How can I set up a profile?

Thanks.

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Old-time ASP enthusiant amazed by .net

I found out this is an Intellisense problem.

Features work OK.

Thanks.

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Old-time ASP enthusiant amazed by .net

Can anyone confirm whether the use of Profiles, as suggested by Harish, be the solution to allowing 2 different Users to be logged on and connected to the application, from the same PC when you open a second window in IE using File/New or Ctrl-N, without interfering with each others' data?

Can anyone confirm whether this feature (SessionIDManager.CreateSessionID Method) allows the creation of a NEW Session ID, when you open a second window in IE using File/New or Ctrl-N, thereby allowing 2 different Users to be logged on and connected to the application with separately identified Session States?

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Michael Holberton
Hospedaje Macha Wasi & Sacred Valley Mountain Bike Tours
Cusco Database Development and Cycling Services
http://www.machawasi.com - http://databaseservices.blogspot.com

Hi!

this technique is good.it working fine.

thanks & regards

nani

ok,

carry out the profile property for greater performance

Technieque is not bad good performance

 

Jitter Son

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www.hitechcompanylinks.com

 

I've done some testing with profile, and it seems that it hits database every time I read the properties of a profile. Doesn't this mean lots of queries for my database, if I get some info about user for most of the pages in my app?

Yes, Profile is particularly chatty, and does not offer the greatest performance, despite its helpfulness.

i agree. i experienced (actually we) some delays when a lot of people where accessing the app simultaneously.. any workarounds?

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