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Re: Pulling Profile Data

kmj2384 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:43:55 GMT

Perfect! Thank you for walking me through that.

Re: Pulling Profile Data

RedRaiders07 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:35:55 GMT

Oh ok, we have this backwards then. I thought you were having trouble updating the EMail in the Membership data store.

To pull the email:

Dim u As MembershipUser = Membership.GetUser()

If u IsNot Nothing Then

email.Text = u.Email.toString

End If

Re: Pulling Profile Data

kmj2384 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:53:10 GMT

Sorry, I should have been more specific in my last post. I'm getting the error from my last post when I try to login to my site or am logged in and go to the update profile page.

Also, to give a little background on the update profile page, when you are logged in it pulls information like address, username, city, etc from the aspnet_Profile Table.

Since email is not stored in this table, I'm trying to have this code grab the registered email from aspnet_Membership table, and that's the part I'm stuck on.

Re: Pulling Profile Data

RedRaiders07 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:54:34 GMT

The error message is saying that you passed an empty email to the UpdateUser method. You should also check to make sure that email.Text has a value and is in correct format. I'll leave the format checking as an exercise for you.

If u IsNot Nothing AndAlso email.Text.Length > 0 Then

u.Email = email.Text

Membership.UpdateUser(u)

End If

Make sure that the email TextBox is not being cleared out during postback.

Re: Pulling Profile Data

kmj2384 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:06:42 GMT

Hi,

I looked over the code you posted as well as the link. I put the code in like this:

Dim u As MembershipUser = Membership.GetUser(User.Identity.Name)

If u IsNot Nothing Then

u.Email = email.Text

Membership.UpdateUser(u)

and am now getting this error:

System.ArgumentException: The parameter 'Email' must not be empty.
Parameter name: Email

Line 32:                 u.Email = email.Text
Line 33:                 Membership.UpdateUser(u)
Line 34:
Line 35:             End If

I'm not sure what that means, do you have anymore insight on the matter? Thank you very much.

Re: Pulling Profile Data

Thomas Sun – MSFT — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:46:06 GMT

Hi,

I suggest you check if GetUser() method returns null before using it. For example:

Dim u As MembershipUser = Membership.GetUser(User.Identity.Name)
If u IsNot Nothing Then
u.Email = EmailTextBox.Text
Membership.UpdateUser(u)
End If

For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/40w5063z.aspx

I look forward to hearing from you.

Re: Pulling Profile Data

kmj2384 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:24:34 GMT

Hi, I put in the code exactly as you said:

If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(Membership.GetUser().Email) Then

Dim user As MembershipUser = Membership.GetUser()

user.Email = email.Text

End If

and now I'm getting this error:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Line 30: If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(Membership.GetUser().Email) Then

Re: Pulling Profile Data

RedRaiders07 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:26:35 GMT

You first need to access the current MembershipUser to get the email.

To get the e-mail:

Membership.GetUser().Email

To set the e-mail when the user clicks save:

Dim user as MembershipUser = Membership.GetUser()

user.Email = email.Text

Membership.UpdateUser(user)

Pulling Profile Data

kmj2384 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:17:44 GMT

I have a profile page on my website that displays profile data as well as can update profile data. I would like members to be able to see their current email address in the "current profile" section. However, the email address is stored in the SQL database table aspnet_Membership (using the standard database created by visual web developer 2008). Is there a way to access this information for the users to see on their profile section? I know how to pull the rest of the data, ie:

If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(Profile.address) Then

address.Text = Profile.address

End If

but theres an error when you try to pull the email:

If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(Membership.email) Then

email.Text = Profile.email

End If

('email' is not a member of 'System.Web.Security.Membership.)

Thanks for any help!