Finding very little information on how to implement Profiles in Asp.Net MVC, I thought I'd share my solution to implement this.
For demonstration purposes, let's assume you want to store a user's First and Last Name only.
Firstly I created a "UserProfile" class that derive from "System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase" and implemented it as follows:
public class UserProfile : ProfileBase
{
[SettingsAllowAnonymous(false)]
public string FirstName
{
get { return base["FirstName"] as string; }
set { base["FirstName"] = value; }
}
[SettingsAllowAnonymous(false)]
public string LastName
{
get { return base["LastName"] as string; }
set { base["LastName"] = value; }
}
public static UserProfile GetUserProfile(string username)
{
return Create(username) as UserProfile;
}
public static UserProfile GetUserProfile()
{
return Create(Membership.GetUser().UserName) as UserProfile;
}
}
That being done, I ensure my Profile Provider have been set up properly in my web.config (note how I inherit from the above class)
<profile inherits="Krok.Core.BusinessLogic.Models.Account.UserProfile">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider"
type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider"
connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</profile>
As I like to keep logic seperated, and also only use strongly typed view models, I created a view model class seperately:
public class UserProfileViewModel
{
[DisplayName("First Name")]
[DataType(DataType.Text)]
public string FirstName { get; set; }
[DisplayName("Last Name")]
[DataType(DataType.Text)]
public string LastName { get; set; }
}
Now, I created two action methods, one for displaying a user's profile, one for editing it:
[Authorize]
public ViewResult Profile()
{
UserProfile profile = UserProfile.GetUserProfile(User.Identity.Name);
var model = new UserProfileViewModel
{
FirstName = profile.FirstName,
LastName = profile.LastName
};
return View(model);
}
[HttpPost]
[Authorize]
public ActionResult Profile(UserProfileViewModel model)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
UserProfile profile = UserProfile.GetUserProfile(User.Identity.Name);
profile.FirstName = model.FirstName;
profile.LastName = model.LastName;
profile.Save();
return RedirectToRoute("Account.Profile");
}
return View(model);
}
Now, you obviously just will create two views, both strongly typed (UserProfileViewModel)
Hope this help for anyone that need to implement Profiles in a Asp.Net MVC application.
