I just made the switch to Umbraco 4.5 from N2, and must say that I am super excited about this CMS. Purchasing a video subscription helped tremendously, but I still have a few questions.

I am currently buidling a registration form that programatically creates a user. I create the user no problem using standard ASP.NET membership:

                    MembershipUser user = Membership.CreateUser(txtEmailAddress.Text,
                       txtPassword.Text,
                       txtEmailAddress.Text,
                       System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PasswordRecoveryQuestion"],
                       System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["PasswordRecoveryAnswer"],
                       true,
                       out status);

The user is saved, and I can see them in the admin section of Umbraco. However, I have added custom properties that I would like to modify.

Now, I understand how to access those properties, change them, and save them. However the method that I'm using appears to be 'depreciated.' What is the proper method of creating a user and saving custom properties? To access the user once its created using the standard ASP.NET membership, I use:

                        Member member = Member.GetMemberFromEmail(txtEmailAddress.Text);

                        if (member != null || member.Id > 0)
                        {
                            member.LoginName = txtFirstName.Text + " " + txtLastName.Text;
                            member.getProperty("First Name").Value = txtFirstName.Text;
                            member.getProperty("Last Name").Value = txtLastName.Text;
                            member.getProperty("Company").Value = txtCompany.Text;
                            member.Save();
                        }

The website I've created uses a registration and asks the user a few questions about themselves.