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ProfilePropertySettings::Provider Property

Gets or sets the name of a provider to use when serializing the named property.

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

[ConfigurationPropertyAttribute(L"provider", DefaultValue = L"")]
public:
property String^ Provider {
	String^ get ();
	void set (String^ value);
}

Property Value

Type: System::String
The name of a provider from the ProfileSection::Providers property, or an empty string (""). The default is an empty string.

Profile providers are data sources in which user-profile values are stored. You can specify profile providers in the providers subsection of the profile section of a configuration file.

If the value of this property is an empty string, the default provider specified in the ProfileSection::DefaultProvider property is used.

The following code example shows how to use the Provider property. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the ProfileSection class.

No code example is currently available or this language may not be supported.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

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

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
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