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

End If

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

 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)

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

 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

Perfect!  Thank you for walking me through that.