Created a profile but error elements are not accessible

hoss · February 18th, 2011, 03:16 PM

Around page 562, I'm following the instructions to create a profile. But after creating the profile elements and compiling the app I can't reference those elements.

In the project's (not web site) root is web.config and I've modified the profile <system.web> section like so:

Code:

    <profile>
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/"/>
      </providers>
      <properties>
        <add name ="favoritetea" allowAnonymous="true"/>
      </properties>
    </profile>

In the website's defualt.aspx (which is the page first loaded with the master page) I try to set a value for "favoritetea" and it's not happy. No intellisense and on compile an error appears

'favoritetea' is not a member of 'Profile'

Here is that page's onload code:

Code:

    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Profile.favoritetea = "earl grey"

    End Sub

I may be wrong but I discount the fact that I'm using a asp.net project instead of a web site, and that I'm using a masterpage as issues, because it's not a runtime issue, it won't even compile.

Imar · February 18th, 2011, 03:54 PM

Quote:

I may be wrong but I discount the fact that I'm using a asp.net project instead of a web site, and that I'm using a masterpage as issues, because it's not a runtime issue, it won't even compile.

It *is* caused by the fact you're using a Web Application Project and not a Web Site Project.

Web Site Projects support dynamic compilation and can create, and attach the Profile property to the Page class on the fly. With a Web Application Project, this doesn't happen, and thus the Profile properties won't exist and thus your code doesn't compile.

If you want to follow along with the book, you need a Web Site Project as explained in the early chapters. Alternatively, you can look into other solutions:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...www.google.com

http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/WebProfileBuilder

Cheers,

Imar

hoss · February 18th, 2011, 04:12 PM

OK, thanks Imar!