Hello, I am very new to .NET and trying to learn as much as i can and begin buidling my applications. And have a few issues.......here is one...........

I am just getting a little confused with it all and my problem is as below.....

I have a create user page where by the user fills out their username, password, email, firstname and last name. The first 3 items get stored in the aspnet_members DB and i stored the last 2 in a profile i created, allowing anonymous.

Now i want to be able to get the user to sign up and then wait to be approved before being able to login to the site. I currently have in place the Profile_MigrateAnonymous sub routine so when the user is authenticated their anonymous profile is migrated over to their main account. I assume that the profile information is stored in a cookie of some sort?!

Now my issue i have understanding is if a user signs up and then a day later they delete all their cookies and then get approved to login to the site, then the anonymous userid they were assigned is no longer tied to their computer so therefore it wont migrate their profile and is not associtated to them. How do i get around this?

Any help much appreciated!

Ta

Ben

I don't think you'll be able to do this.

The anonymous user tracking feature depends completely on a cookie (it might work with cookieless mode as well; not sure, but that would be make the problem even bigger).

So, as long as your user hasn't signed up for an account, the only way you know who this user is, is by his anonymous user ID. Once the cookie is deleted, there is no way to link up the orphaned profile with the user.

The profile information itself is not stored in a cookie, but in the aspnet_Profiles table in the database created for your application. The user's cookie is used to link that user to a specific record in that table.



HtH,

Imar
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Thank you Imar for your help and response!

My Next question is what woul be the best way then to store this extra information without the use of the profile? just store it into another DB table?

Ben