(resubmitted from a previous topic: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/developers/api-questions/11520-Membership-properties,-proper-way-to-do-it)

Hmm..

Now that I'm trying to implement this thing, I'm getting a strange error.. or lack there of even..

My setup: IIS 7.5 / Umb 4.5.1 / .NET 4.0

My web.config:

<profile defaultProvider="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" enabled="true" inherits="MyNamespace.MemberProfile">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoProfileProvider, umbraco.providers" />
</providers>
<!--
<properties>
<clear />
<add name="firstName" allowAnonymous ="false" provider="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" type="System.String" />
<add name="lastName" allowAnonymous ="false" provider="UmbracoMemberProfileProvider" type="System.String" />
</properties>
-->
</profile>

Note that I have to remove the properties since IIS complains that firstName (and any other property I've defined in Umbraco) has allready been defined.

On a webpage (profile page) I'm invoking this command on page load:

FirstName.Text = ((MemberProfile)this.Context.Profile).FirstName;

Which in turn invokes:

[SettingsAllowAnonymous(false)]
public string FirstName 
{ 
  get 
  {
    var o = base.GetPropertyValue("firstName"); 
    if (o == DBNull.Value) 
    { 
      return string.Empty; 
    } 
    return (string)o; 
  } 
  set 
  {
    base.SetPropertyValue("firstName", value); 
  } 
}

This will however return an empty string, even though I've set data via umbraco membership section.

What am I missing here?

Do I need a tissue? :oP