ASP.NET Profile Templates

Question

Is it possible have more than one profile template?

I'm working on an internal application for a company that will be distributed to multiple locations and have different setups. I was thinking of having a profile for user preferences, and then using the profile system to store system configuration information (I didn't want to load the web.config file down with configuration information), however I would need two separate profile templates.

Answer 1

The web.config is the ideal location to store application settings. If your deploying to a farm and want a central location then a database might be another possibility.

You can use the appsetting's file attribute as described here to externalize the actual configuration from the web.config if you need.

You can also use the configsource property to store a configuration section in an external file.