SettingsAllowAnonymousAttribute Class

The SettingsAllowAnonymousAttribute class is used to identify whether a property of a custom profile implementation can be accessed if the user is an anonymous user. For information about enabling anonymous identification, see the documentation provided for the anonymousIdentification configuration element.

If no SettingsAllowAnonymousAttribute is specified for a profile property, anonymous access of the profile property is not allowed.

A custom profile implementation is a class that inherits from the ProfileBase abstract class and defines properties for the user profile that are not specified in the profile configuration element. You can specify a custom user-profile type in the application's Web.config file with the inherits attribute of the profile configuration element as shown in the following example.

<configuration>

<connectionStrings>

<add

name="SqlServices"

connectionString="Data Source=localhost;Integrated Security=SSPI;Initial Catalog=aspnetdb;" />

</connectionStrings>

<system.web>

<authentication mode="Forms" >

<forms

loginUrl="login.aspx"

name=".ASPXFORMSAUTH" />

</authentication>

<authorization>

<deny users="?" />

</authorization>

<profile inherits="Samples.AspNet.Profile.EmployeeProfile"

defaultProvider="SqlProvider">

<providers>

<clear />

<add

name="SqlProvider"

type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider"

connectionStringName="SqlServices"

description="SQL Profile Provider for Sample"/>

<add

name="EmployeeInfoProvider"

type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider"

connectionStringName="SqlServices"

description="SQL Profile Provider for Employee Info"/>

</providers>

<properties>

<add name="GarmentSize" />

</properties>

</profile>

</system.web>

</configuration>

The following code example defines a class that inherits from the ProfileBase to create a custom profile. The type of the custom profile is specified in the inherits attribute of the profile configuration element in the Web.config file for an application.

using System;
using System.Web.Profile;

namespace Samples.AspNet.Profile
{
  public class EmployeeProfile : ProfileBase
  {
    [SettingsAllowAnonymous(false)]
    [ProfileProvider("EmployeeInfoProvider")]
    public string Department
    {
      get { return base["EmployeeDepartment"].ToString(); }
      set { base["EmployeeDepartment"] = value; }
    }

    [SettingsAllowAnonymous(false)]
    [ProfileProvider("EmployeeInfoProvider")]
    public EmployeeInfo Details
    {
      get { return (EmployeeInfo)base["EmployeeInfo"]; }
      set { base["EmployeeInfo"] = value; }
    }

  }

  public class EmployeeInfo
  {
    public string Name;
    public string Address;
    public string Phone;
    public string EmergencyContactName;
    public string EmergencyContactAddress;
    public string EmergencyContactPhone;
  }
}

.NET Framework

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

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