ProfileManager.DeleteProfiles Method (String())

 

Deletes profile properties and information for the supplied list of user names.

Namespace:   System.Web.Profile
Assembly:  System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Public Shared Function DeleteProfiles (
	usernames As String()
) As Integer

Parameters

usernames
Type: System.String()

A string array of user names for profiles to be deleted.

Return Value

Type: System.Int32

The number of profiles deleted from the data source.

Exception Condition
ArgumentException

The length of usernames is zero.

- or -

One of the items in usernames is an empty string ("") or contains a comma.

- or -

Two or more items in usernames have the same value.

ArgumentNullException

usernames is null.

- or -

One of the items in usernames is null.

The DeleteProfiles method deletes all profile information and properties for the specified profiles from the data source for the application specified by the ApplicationName property. The list of profiles to delete is specified as a string array of user names. If profile properties and information exist in the data source for a user name in the usernames parameter, they are deleted.

The return value may differ from the length of the specified array of usernames. This indicates that some of the profiles in the specified array of usernames were already deleted from the data store.

The DeleteProfiles method calls the DeleteProfiles method of the default profile provider. The default profile provider is specified using the defaultProvider attribute of the configuration element. If the user profile contains properties that are managed by a profile provider other than the default provider, they are not deleted. To delete profile properties that are managed by a profile provider other than the default provider, obtain a reference to the profile provider using the Providers property and call the DeleteProfiles method of the provider directly.

The following code example shows an ASP.NET page that manages inactive profiles. A GridView control displays the inactive profiles returned. Each row of the GridView control includes a button that deletes the profile for that row from the data source with a call to the DeleteProfiles method.

System_CAPS_security Security Note

This example contains a text box that accepts user input, which is a potential security threat. By default, ASP.NET Web pages validate that user input does not include script or HTML elements. For more information, see Script Exploits Overview.

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Profile" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

Dim pageSize As Integer = 5
Dim totalProfiles As Integer 
Dim totalPages As Integer
Dim currentPage As Integer = 1

Dim authOption As ProfileAuthenticationOption
Dim inactiveDays As Integer = 120
Dim deletedProfiles As Integer = 0

Public Sub Page_Load()

  DeletedMessage.Text = ""

  authOption = GetAuthenticationOption()

  If Not IsPostBack Then  
    InactiveDaysTextBox.Text = inactiveDays.ToString()

    GetProfiles()
  Else
    inactiveDays = Convert.ToInt32(InactiveDaysTextBox.Text)
  End If
End Sub

Public Sub ProfileGrid_Delete(sender As Object, args As GridViewCommandEventArgs)
  ' Retrieve user name selected.

  Dim index As Integer = Convert.ToInt32(args.CommandArgument)

  Dim username As String = ProfileGrid.Rows(index).Cells(0).Text

  ProfileManager.DeleteProfiles(New string() {username})

  DeletedMessage.Text = "1 profile deleted."

  ' Refresh profile list.

  currentPage = Convert.ToInt32(CurrentPageLabel.Text)
  GetProfiles()
End Sub


Private Sub GetProfiles()
  ProfileGrid.DataSource = ProfileManager.GetAllInactiveProfiles(authOption, _
                               DateTime.Now.Subtract(New TimeSpan(inactiveDays, 0, 0, 0)), _
                               currentPage - 1, pageSize, totalProfiles)

  TotalProfilesLabel.Text = totalProfiles.ToString()

  totalPages = ((totalProfiles - 1) \ pageSize) + 1

  ' Ensure that we do not navigate past the last page of Profiles.

  If currentPage > totalPages Then  
    currentPage = totalPages
    GetProfiles()
    Return
  End If

  ProfileGrid.DataBind()
  CurrentPageLabel.Text = currentPage.ToString()
  TotalPagesLabel.Text = totalPages.ToString()

  If currentPage = totalPages Then
    NextButton.Visible = False
  Else
    NextButton.Visible = True
  End If

  If currentPage = 1 Then
    PreviousButton.Visible = False
  Else
    PreviousButton.Visible = True
  End If

  If totalProfiles <= 0 Then
    NavigationPanel.Visible = False
  Else
    NavigationPanel.Visible = True
  End If
End Sub

Public Sub NextButton_OnClick(sender As Object, args As EventArgs)
  currentPage = Convert.ToInt32(CurrentPageLabel.Text)
  currentPage += 1
  GetProfiles()
End Sub

Public Sub PreviousButton_OnClick(sender As Object, args As EventArgs)
  currentPage = Convert.ToInt32(CurrentPageLabel.Text)
  currentPage -= 1
  GetProfiles()
End Sub

Public Sub ModifyInactiveDaysButton_OnClick(sender As Object, args As EventArgs)
  GetProfiles()
End Sub

Public Sub AuthenticationOptionListBox_OnSelectedIndexChanged(sender As Object, args As EventArgs)
  authOption = GetAuthenticationOption()
  GetProfiles()
End Sub

Private Function GetAuthenticationOption() As ProfileAuthenticationOption 
  If Not AuthenticationOptionListBox.SelectedItem Is Nothing Then  
    Select Case AuthenticationOptionListBox.SelectedItem.Value
      Case "Anonymous"
        Return ProfileAuthenticationOption.Anonymous
      Case "Authenticated"
        return ProfileAuthenticationOption.Authenticated
      Case Else
        Return ProfileAuthenticationOption.All
    End Select
  End If

  Return ProfileAuthenticationOption.All
End Function

Public Sub DeleteAllInactiveButton_OnClick(sender As Object, args As EventArgs)
  deletedProfiles = ProfileManager.DeleteInactiveProfiles(authOption, _
                        DateTime.Now.Subtract(new TimeSpan(inactiveDays, 0, 0 ,0)))
  DeletedMessage.Text = deletedProfiles.ToString() & " profiles deleted."
  GetProfiles()
End SUb

</script>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
<title>Sample: Find Profiles</title>
</head>
<body>

<form id="form1" runat="server">
  <h3>Profile List</h3>

  <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3">
    <tr>
      <td valign="top">Authentication Option</td>
      <td valign="top"><asp:ListBox id="AuthenticationOptionListBox" rows="3" runat="Server"
                                    AutoPostBack="True"
                                    OnSelectedIndexChanged="AuthenticationOptionListBox_OnSelectedIndexChanged">
                         <asp:ListItem value="All" selected="True">All</asp:ListItem>
                         <asp:ListItem value="Authenticated">Authenticated</asp:ListItem>
                         <asp:ListItem value="Anonymous">Anonymous</asp:ListItem>
                       </asp:ListBox>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td valign="top" style="width:160">
        Number of Days for Profile to be considered "inactive"</td>
      <td valign="top" style="width:200">
        <asp:TextBox id="InactiveDaysTextBox" runat="Server" MaxLength="3" Columns="3" />
        <asp:Button id="ModifyInactiveDaysButton" runat="server" Text="Refresh Results" 
           OnClick="ModifyInactiveDaysButton_OnClick" /><br />
        <asp:Button id="DeleteAllInactiveButton" runat="Server"
           Text="Delete All Inactive Profiles" OnClick="DeleteAllInactiveButton_OnClick" />
      </td>
      <td valign="top">
        <asp:RequiredFieldValidator id="InactiveDaysRequiredValidator" runat="server"
           ControlToValidate="InactiveDaysTextBox" ForeColor="red"
           Display="Static" ErrorMessage="Required" />
        <asp:RegularExpressionValidator id="InactiveDaysValidator" runat="server"
           ControlToValidate="InactiveDaysTextBox" ForeColor="red"
           Display="Static" ValidationExpression="[0-9]*" 
           ErrorMessage="Inactive Days must be a whole number less than 1000 (e.g. 30, 120)" />
     </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td><asp:Label id="DeletedMessage" runat="server" /></td>
      <td><asp:Label id="TotalProfilesLabel" runat="server" /> inactive profiles found.</td>
    </tr>
  </table>

    <asp:Panel id="NavigationPanel" Visible="False" runat="server">
    <table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3">
      <tr>
        <td style="width:100">Page <asp:Label id="CurrentPageLabel" runat="server" />
            of <asp:Label id="TotalPagesLabel" runat="server" /></td>
        <td style="width:60"><asp:LinkButton id="PreviousButton" Text="< Prev"
                            OnClick="PreviousButton_OnClick" runat="server" /></td>
        <td style="width:60"><asp:LinkButton id="NextButton" Text="Next >"
                            OnClick="NextButton_OnClick" runat="server" /></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
  </asp:Panel>

  <asp:GridView id="ProfileGrid" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False"
                OnRowCommand="ProfileGrid_Delete"
                CellPadding="2" CellSpacing="1" Gridlines="None">
    <HeaderStyle BackColor="darkblue" ForeColor="white" />
    <Columns>
      <asp:BoundField HeaderText="User Name" DataField="Username" />
      <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Is Anonymous" DataField="IsAnonymous" />
      <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Last Updated" DataField="LastUpdatedDate" />
      <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Last Activity" DataField="LastActivityDate" />
      <asp:ButtonField HeaderText="Action" Text="Delete" ButtonType="Link" />
    </Columns>
  </asp:GridView>

</form>

</body>
</html>

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Available since 2.0
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