How to assign Profile values?

Question

I don\'t know what I am missing, but I added Profile properties in the Web.config file but cannot access Profile.Item in the code or create a new profile.

Answer 1

Just want to add to Joel Spolsky's answer

I implemented his solution, working brilliantly btw - Cudos!

For anyone wanting to get a user profile that's not the logged in user I used:

web.config:

and

And then my custom class:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Profile;
using System.Web.Security;

namespace NameSpace
{
    public class AccountProfile : ProfileBase
    {
        static public AccountProfile CurrentUser
        {
            get
            {
                return (AccountProfile)
                 (ProfileBase.Create(Membership.GetUser().UserName));
            }
        }

        static public AccountProfile GetUser(MembershipUser User)
        {
            return (AccountProfile)
                (ProfileBase.Create(User.UserName));
        }

        /// 

        /// Find user with matching barcode, if no user is found function throws exception
        /// 
        /// The barcode to compare against the user barcode
        /// The AccountProfile class with matching barcode or null if the user is not found
        static public AccountProfile GetUser(string Barcode)
        {
            MembershipUserCollection muc = Membership.GetAllUsers();

            foreach (MembershipUser user in muc)
            {
                if (AccountProfile.GetUser(user).Barcode == Barcode)
                {
                    return (AccountProfile)
                        (ProfileBase.Create(user.UserName));
                }
            }
            throw new Exception("User does not exist");
        }

        public bool isOnJob
        {
            get { return (bool)(base["isOnJob"]); }
            set { base["isOnJob"] = value; Save(); }
        }

        public string Barcode
        {
            get { return (string)(base["Barcode"]); }
            set { base["Barcode"] = value; Save(); }
        }
    }
}

Works like a charm...