ProfilePropertySettings.Provider Property

Definition

Gets or sets the name of a provider to use when serializing the named property.

[System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("provider", DefaultValue="")]
public string Provider { get; set; }

Property Value

The name of a provider from the Providers property, or an empty string (""). The default is an empty string.

Attributes

Examples

The following code example shows how to use the Provider property. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the ProfileSection class.

// Get the current ProviderName property value.
Console.WriteLine(
    "Current ProviderName value: '{0}'", profilePropertySettings.Provider);

// Set the ProviderName property to "AspNetSqlRoleProvider".
profilePropertySettings.Provider = "AspNetSqlRoleProvider";

Remarks

Profile providers are data sources in which user-profile values are stored. You can specify profile providers in the providers subsection of the profile section of a configuration file.

If the value of this property is an empty string, the default provider specified in the ProfileSection.DefaultProvider property is used.

Applies to

Product Versions
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8, 4.8.1

See also