Is user profiles an appropriate place to store things like number of items per page in a custom grid user selected? (I you can store it in the view, but it won't be per user this way). My first though was to store these settings in user profiles, but there are problems with access permissions for programmatically creating user profile p...
Hi, i want to use profiles and was able to use aspent_regsql -A p to install the tables. I can see them throught SQL management studio. Im actually using SQLExpress 2005, and my dbo.aspnet_SchemaVersions is populated. Does anybody know what could be going wrong? By the way, im preety sure my connection string and app code are allright...
Hi all, I am trying to setup a shared authentication system on a build server. We have several maven projects that declares how the deployment should be done regarding the different teams that we have (each team has its own authentication user/password): <profile> <id>release-profile</id> <distributionManagement> <repository> ...
Hi all, I would really appreciate some feedback on what I am trying to achieve: The problem: I would like to authorize a user of my application to a single action on the controller. For e.g.: a user can perform the "save" action on my controller class if he has the required authorization. In the project I am working on, the creation ...
I found a couple other postings discussing this error, but my situation is slightly different than the others I've seen First let's get the platform/settings out of the way: * CS 2007 SP2 * Windows 2008 Server Standard x64 SP1 * Using the user name field instead of the email field. Field type is nvarchar. * User name is trimmed before...
How do you add a profile entry (consisting of a guid, two strings, and an integer) to an existing user in the default SQL profile and membership providers? I can do this either via a sql query or C# code. I need to add a bunch of these profiles to already existing users. ...
What solutions are available to access Profile information since Web Applications do not expose ProfileCommon class like Web Site projects do. ...
Was wondering if there was a simple way to add and configure a POP3 server to Outlook's mail server settings programmatically? Searching Google seems to yield results that tell me I have to reverse-engineer the gobbledygook stored under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles. My employer wanted to see if...
Is there any way to set a more complex mapping in a sharepoint profile? What I'm trying to do is set it so that a user's picture is set as the equivilent of String.Format("http://sharepoint/Photos/{0}_{1}.jpg", givenName, sn) But the properties only seem to support a simple 1-1 mapping of AD to profile attributes. ...
Hi, I am currently working on building my own blogging website from scratch (instead of using WordPress or Drupal). I have the articles set up and stored in databases and the website runs queries on the databases to display the content. That all works fine. What I would like to know is how do I write a system for users to register wit...
I've imported a bunch of users into my Active Directory with some custom fields. Then I did a profile import from Active Directory to Sharepoint with all the custom fields and regular fields. After this, I needed each user to be in a site collection with a MySite set up for them. I did that by writing some code that ensured the user e...
Is there a way to search profiles in MOSS from the object model? I need to search for profiles that have a certain value set on their profile and then perform some action for them. I need to write some c# code that can search the profiles database and return the matching profiles. Basically, List of Profiles = Select Profiles Fr...
Hello. This question is potentially a big one but does anyone have a solution to store Profile properties in the Session rather than in a database. Sample source code for a ProfileProvider would be okay but I was hoping that there is some tiny config setting that I was missing that would allow me to do this. Any suggestions? Thanks ...
I have a wrapper class that basically wraps the functionality of creating a user and a profile. I can verify that the user is created using Moq. by passing in a mocked membership provider, and verifying that my method calls the mockproviders create user method. But the main reason that I am wrapping this is that with the user being cr...
I have a properties file called ApplicationResources.properties in my application with a property that changes depending on the environment. Let us say the property is: resources.location=/home/username/resources and this value is different when the application is executed during development and when the application goes into pro...
This is a question that has been bugging me for a while. I started my app (now submitted -- not yet approved) not wishing to get into the mess that is APNS (Push). I did the following: iPhone Developer Center: Provisioning Portal->Provisioning: Then I created a Development and a Distribution Provisioning Profile. I installed both in...
I'm coding an app that uses configurable profiles for different user preferences: many different users will use the same app on the same device. The problem is that I can't use Android's PreferenceActivity because it just support one user per application. Is there an easy way to generate the user interface for configuration, or I hav...
Hey, I am writing simple site that requires users and profiles to be handled. The first initial thought is to use django's build in user handling, but then the user model is too narrow and does not contain fields that I need. The documentation mentions user profiles, but user profiles section has been removed from djangobook covering dj...
I have a class that returns parameters I've set in the profile properties in web.config. It works great on classes, but I cannot seem to make it work under the Global.asax? Here is how I get the parameter: public static string MissingPagePath { get { return HttpContext.Current.Profile.GetPropertyValue("MissingPage").ToString(); } }...
We use the ASP.NET profile subsystem to associate key-value pairs of information with users. I am implementing functionality for the deletion of users. I have been using the ProfileManager.DeleteProfile(string userName) method, but I have noticed that this leaves a row in the aspnet_Users table in the aspnetdb database we use to store ...