How to extend aspnet membership forms authentication tables?

Question

I would like to add a realName field in addition to the user\'s user name and email address.

In the past I have created a new table that includes the <

Answer 1

You should use the Membership User Profile API to extend custom properties to your users, and not directly add columns to the aspnet_Membership and aspnet_Users tables.

You can also look at the SqlTableProfileProvider

And make sure you read Joel's and Colivier's posts here on how to create strongly typed profile classes.

Answer 2

If this is a Web Application project you will need to use a custom profile class as Profiles only come out of the box with the Website model:

http://www.codersbarn.com/post/2008/07/10/ASPNET-PayPal-Subscriptions-IPN.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/joewrobel/archive/2008/02/03/web-profile-builder-for-web-application-projects.aspx