Hi,

I am having a strange problem whereby I can access Membership and MembershipUser perfectly from my console application, but accessing Profiles is causing an Exception.

Firstly, I have a reference to System.Web in my project. In my class, I am including System.Web.Wrofile and System.Web.Security.

I wanted to use ProfileCommon, but intellisense does not see this (why not!!?); so I am using ProfileBase in the following way:

  

ProfileBase userProfile = ProfileBase.Create(mem.UserName, true);

When this line is reached, my try catch gives me:

System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Attempting to load this property's type resulted in the following error: Could not load type 'CentralHostLibrary.UserAlertPrefObject' from assembly System.Web...

I don't understand this. Why is it trying to look for my class library (CentralHostLibrary) in System.Web????

Here is my app.config file:

<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="ConnectionString" value="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=MembershipDB;Integrated Security=True;"/>
  </appSettings>
  <connectionStrings>
    <remove name="LocalSqlServer"/>
    <add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=MembershipDB;Integrated Security=True;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
  </connectionStrings>

  <system.web>
    <roleManager enabled="true">
    </roleManager>
    <membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="20">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="AspNetSqlProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider,
                System.Web,
                Version=2.0.3600.0,
                Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="true" minRequiredPasswordLength="8" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="1" passwordFormat="Hashed" description="Stores and retrieves membership data from the local Sql Server database"/>
      </providers>
    </membership>
    <profile defaultProvider="SqlProfileProvider">
      <providers>
        <remove name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider"/>
        <add name="SqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" applicationName="/" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer"/>
      </providers>
      <properties>
        <add name="FirstName" type="string"/>
        <add name="LastName" type="string"/>
        <add name="Company" type="string"/>
        <add name="AlertPrefs" type="CentralHostLibrary.UserAlertPrefObject" serializeAs="Binary"/>
        <add name="PrefsChanged" type="bool" defaultValue="false"/>
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

kreid:

I wanted to use ProfileCommon, but intellisense does not see this (why not!!?); so I am using ProfileBase in the following way:

 

I can use ProfileCommon and this work will on my VS 2005

 You should enable the profile in “web.config” like this:

    <profile enabled="true">

      <properties>

        <add name="UICulture" allowAnonymous="true" defaultValue="fr-FR" />

        <add name="Culture" allowAnonymous="true" defaultValue="fr-FR" />

      </properties>

    </profile>

When that is done, Create the profile and save the settings. Example:

        ProfileCommon pfc = (ProfileCommon)ProfileCommon.Create(Login1.UserName, true);

        pfc.UICulture = "John";

        pfc.Culture = "";

        pfc.Save();

Hope it helps