Define User Profile Properties

As described in the book, you can add properties to users who create accounts on your Web site. The sample code below is straight from the book (page 176 in the English edition). It goes in the site's Web.config file. Make sure you put all the tags between <system.web> and </system.web> as described in the book. Don't paste the code inside some other block of code in Web.config either.

<!-- Define profile properties -->
    <profile>
	    <properties>
	        <add name="FirstName"/>
	        <add name="LasttName"/>
	        <add name="FirstName"/>
	        <add name="Address1"/>
	        <add name="Address2"/>
	        <add name="City"/>
	        <add name="StateProvince"/>
	        <add name="ZIPPostalCode"/>
	        <add name="Country" defaultValue="USA"/>
	    </properties>
	</profile>
<!-- End define profile properties -->

The comments in the sample code above are optional. They'll be green after you paste the code into your Web.config file. The image below shows how the code will look when it's properly pasted. The </system.web> tag should already be in your Web.config file. You don't need to type that in yourself. Just make sure the code you paste in is right above that tag.

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