Updating another users profile in VS 2010

[TigerFan987]

I have created and asp.net website that has user profiles associated with users authenticated through Active Directory. I can add the profile and view other user profiles without any problem. But if I want to update another users profile it doesn't want to work.

If I hard code the values into the update like below it works fine:

        Dim userProfile As New ProfileCommon
        userProfile = Profile.GetProfile("username")

        With userProfile
            .FirstName = "asdf"
            .LastName = "dfgh"
        End With

        userProfile.Save()

But if I try to get the updated values from textboxes like below, it won't work.

        Dim userProfile As New ProfileCommon
        userProfile = Profile.GetProfile("username")

        With userProfile
            .FirstName = txtFname.text.toString
            .LastName = txtLname.Text.ToString
        End With

        userProfile.Save()

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

 

[jmeckley]

is vb case sensitive? that could be 1 problem, but that would throw a compilation error. are you sure the controls contain values?

try this code and set a break point on firstname. step through the code and confirm that first and last name have the expected value.

var firstname = txtFname.Text
var lastname = txtLname.Text

Dim userProfile = Profile.GetProfile("username")
userProfile.FirstName = firstname
userProfile.LastName = lastname
userProfile.Save()

Jason Meckley
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[TigerFan987]

After updating the values in the first and last name textboxes and clicking the update button, I notice in debugging mode the textboxes are keeping their original values. How do I get them to keep the updated variables?

 

[JAG14]

Try without the .ToString Function and use the Me Class of the page.

Dim userProfile As New ProfileCommon = Profile.GetProfile("username")
With userProfile            
   .FirstName = Me.txtFname.Text            
   .LastName = Me.txtLname.Text     
End With
userProfile.Save()

This works on our test system.

HTH

Jag14

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[jmeckley]

Me. is redundant that won't change anything, unless he also has a local variable named txtFname/txtLname.

post your markup. if the controls do not contain a runat="server" attribute, that could be the problem.

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[TigerFan987]

I figure it out. I needed to put the page load event, which loads the profile into the textboxes, into an if not ispostback statement like below.

        If Not IsPostBack Then
            Dim p As New ProfileCommon
            p = Profile.GetProfile(Request.QueryString("username"))

            txtEmail.Text = p.Email.ToString
            txtFacility.Text = p.Facility.ToString
            txtFname.Text = p.FirstName.ToString
            txtLname.Text = p.LastName.ToString
            txtUsername.Text = p.UserName.ToString

        End If

thanks,

 

[jmeckley]

ah, good ol' page life cycle. only in webforms is this a concern

that said, the load event isn't necessarily the proper place for this code. lets assume there is a button on the form the user clicks after updating the first and last name. create a button click event for that button and put your logic there, not the page load event.

Jason Meckley
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[JAG14]

Sorry jMeckley, posted without thinking about the Me redundancy.. Look at me, all old hat! (Still maintaining software in VB6 and .Net 1.1)

TigerFan, Nothing like a good postback to scroom up your code.
Well done on figurung it out and thank you for posting your results. Always helps to have solved questions.!

Regards,

Jag14

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