strong-typed profile values in ASP.NET membership (MVC)

Question

I\'ve been using ASP.NET MVC with membership-based login for several years and everything is working fine (it\'s now MVC3, but membership didn\'t change since the first version

Answer 1

Joel Spolsky had a great answer to this question on this post. You're basically on the right track.

If you're getting the illegal cast error, its most likely due to a problem in the config file. Make sure this is included; more specifically the <profile defaultProvider="SqlProvider" inherits="YourNamespace.AccountProfile"> section.

<profile defaultProvider="SqlProvider" inherits="YourNamespace.AccountProfile">
    <providers>
         <clear />
         <add name="SqlProvider"
              type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider"
              connectionStringName="sqlServerMembership" />
    </providers>
</profile>