Get ProfileCommon : ProfileCommon « Profile « ASP.NET Tutorial

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="GetProfile" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        User Name:<asp:TextBox ID="txtUserName" runat="server"/>
        <asp:Button ID="cmdGet" runat="server" OnClick="cmdGet_Click" Text="Get Profile" /><br />
        <asp:Label ID="lbl" runat="server" Text=""/>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>


File: Default.aspx.cs

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;

public partial class GetProfile : System.Web.UI.Page
{
  protected void cmdGet_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
    ProfileCommon profile = Profile.GetProfile(txtUserName.Text);
        if (profile.LastUpdatedDate == DateTime.MinValue)
        {
            lbl.Text = "No user match found.";
        }
        else
        {
            lbl.Text = "This user lives in " + profile.FirstName;
        }
  }
}


File: Web.config

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
  <system.web>
    <profile>
      <properties>
        <add name="FirstName" type="String" serializeAs="Binary"/>
        <add name="LastName" type="String" serializeAs="Xml"/>
        <add name="DateOfBirth" type="DateTime" serializeAs="String"/>
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </system.web>
</configuration>

15.8.ProfileCommon
	15.8.1.	Get ProfileCommon
	15.8.2.	Profile object retrieved from the current HttpContext object must be case to a ProfileCommon object