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In this chapter, you took a detailed look at the new profiles feature in ASP.NET 2.0. You considered how it works behind the scenes, when it makes the most sense, and how to configure its behavior. Next, you tried out profiles with a full-scale example that stores a user-specific shopping cart.
The final part of this chapter explored how to create a simple profiles provider of your own. Using these techniques, you can overcome many of the limitations of the profiles feature (such as the way it serializes all information into a single, opaque field). The ultimate decision of whether to use profiles or a custom database component still depends on several factors, but with this ability profiles become a valid alternative.
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© 2006 Laurence Moroney, Matthew MacDonald (Ed.), K. Scott Allen, James Avery, Russ Basiura, Mike Batongbacal, Marco Bellinaso, Matt Butler, Andreas Eide, Daniel Cazzulino, Michael Clark, Richard Conway, Robert Eisenberg, Brady Gaster, James Greenwood, Kevin Hoffman, Erik Johansson, Angelo Kastroulis, Dan Kent, Sitaraman Lakshminarayanan, Don Lee, Christopher Miller, Matt Milner, Jan Narkiewicz, Matt Odhner, Ryan O’Keefe, Andrew Reid, Matthew Reynolds, Enrico Sabbadin, Bill Sempf, Doug Seven, Srinivasa Sivkumar, Thiru Thangarathinam, Doug Thews
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(2006). Profiles. In: Moroney, L., MacDonald, M. (eds) Pro ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0118-2_24
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