Whats a solution for using Profiles in asp.net Web Applications?

Question

What solutions are available to access Profile information since Web Applications do not expose ProfileCommon class like Web Site projects do.

Answer 1

Whilst possibly not the best option (but like you didn't find an obvious other option - it doesn't help that I'm also using a custom profile object), I've used the following:

ProfileBase pb = ProfileBase.Create(Page.User.Identity.Name);
m_PreferredName = pb.GetPropertyValue("WebName") as string;

More details, including examples of getting it into a custom type can be found in the Create Method documentation