properties Element for profile (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

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properties Element for profile (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

Defines a collection of user profile properties and property groups.

This element is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

<configuration> Element
  system.web Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
    profile Element (ASP.NET Settings Schema)
      properties Element for profile (ASP.NET Settings Schema)

<properties>
    <add... />
    <clear />
    <remove... />
    <group>...</group>
</properties>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

Element	Description
add	Optional element. Adds a property to the user profile.
clear	Optional element. Clears all previously defined properties from the user profile.
group	Optional element. Defines a grouping of user profile properties.
remove	Optional element. Removes a property from the user profile.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
configuration	Specifies the required root element in every configuration file that is used by the common language runtime and the .NET Framework applications.
system.web	Specifies the root element for the ASP.NET configuration section.
profile	Configures the user profile for an application.

Remarks

For information about accessing and modifying configuration values for the profile element in application code, see ProfileSection.

Example

The following example Web.config file specifies a user profile that contains ZipCode property of type string and a RecentSearchList property of type StringCollection. The generated Profile will have strongly typed accessors for each of the specified properties. For information about the user profile and an example of setting and reading user profile properties, see ASP.NET Profile Properties Overview.

<configuration>
   <connectionStrings>
       <add name="SqlServices" connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial 
            Catalog=aspnetdb;" />
   </connectionStrings>

  <system.web>
   <anonymousIdentification enabled="true" />

   <profile defaultProvider="SqlProvider" >
     <providers>
       <add
         name="SqlProvider"
         connectionStringName="SqlServices"
         applicationName="HttpProfileBaseApplication"
         type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" />
     </providers>

     <properties>
       <add name="ZipCode" allowAnonymous="true" />
       <add name="RecentSearchList"
            type="System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection"
            serializeAs="Xml"
            allowAnonymous="true" />
      </properties>
    </profile>
   </system.web>
</configuration>

Element Information

Configuration section handler	ProfileSection
Configuration member	SystemWebSectionGroupProfile()()()
Configurable locations	Machine.config Root-level Web.config Application-level Web.config
Requirements	Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.0, 5.1, or 6.0 The .NET Framework version 2.0 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

ProfileSection

System.Configuration

System.Web.Configuration

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