Using custom user tables for personalization?

[Kees de Winter]

Hi,

I am thinking about using the personalization features of .net 2.0 but I
can't figure out the following. If I use the standard features of
personalization, I will have users in the auto-generated profile-tables. But
I have my own user tables with many more fields. How do I sync these users
with the profile tables? I have thousands of users in my tables but if I
can't use these tables for personalization it seems quite useless...

Thank you for helping
Kees

 

[Guest]

You'll need to write your own Profile Provider that provides properties for
all your "extra" columns in your Profile table.

You do this by creating a custom ProfileProvider deriving from the base
Profile provider class. Here is a sample from Scott Guthrie's blog:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/01/10/435038.aspx

Peter

 

[Kees de Winter]

Ok thanks!

You'll need to write your own Profile Provider that provides properties for
all your "extra" columns in your Profile table.

You do this by creating a custom ProfileProvider deriving from the base
Profile provider class. Here is a sample from Scott Guthrie's blog:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/01/10/435038.aspx

Peter