How do I manage profiles using SimpleMembership?

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC 4 site based off the internet template. I am using the SimpleMembership which i set up with that template.

I can modify the Users table which h

Answer 1

if you look right around line 273 of the accountcontroller you'll find this line

db.UserProfiles.Add(new UserProfile { UserName = model.UserName });

Looks like even OOTB they (MS) are doing just as you suggested and using EF to update.

I too, am looking for the "correct" way of updating and accessing these properties.

Edit:

Here's my solution (I'm happy if someone says there's an OOTB way to do this).

wrap UserProfile (the .net Entity from SimpleMembership) in a session class.

public static class sessionHelpers {
     public static UserProfile userProfile
        {
            get
            {
                if (HttpContext.Current.Session["userProfile"] != null)
                {
                    return HttpContext.Current.Session["userProfile"] as UserProfile; 
                }
                else
                {
                    using (UsersContext db = new UsersContext())
                    {
                        HttpContext.Current.Session["userInfo"] =
                        db.UserProfiles.Where(x => x.UserName == 
                            HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name).FirstOrDefault();

                   return db.UserProfiles.Where(x => x.UserName == 
                       HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name).FirstOrDefault();
                    }
                }
            }
            set { HttpContext.Current.Session["userProfile"] = value; }
        }
}

From this you can access the profile table by doing

string foo = sessionHelpers.userProfile.FIELDNAME;

where sessionHelpers is my wrapper class. The if block just ensures that if it hasn't been set in the current session that accessing it will attempt to get it.