ASP.NET 4 Unleashed

Using Profiles

The ASP.NET Framework provides you with an alternative to using cookies or Session state to store user information: the Profile object. The Profile object provides you with a strongly typed, persistent form of session state.

You create a Profile by defining a list of Profile properties in your application root web configuration file. The ASP.NET Framework dynamically compiles a class that contains these properties in the background. For example, the web configuration file in Listing 28.19 defines a Profile that contains three properties: firstName, lastName, and numberOfVisits.

Listing 28.19. Web.Config

When you define a Profile ...