I'm creating members in my C# code (Umbraco 4.7.1) using the System.Web.Security.Membership and System.Web.Security.MembershipUser classes and a 'MemberProfile' class derived from System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase. For some time now has been the correct way to handle members in Umbraco.

However I am using a 3 lines of code which revert back to the old and now marked as obsolete umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member.Member class as I cannot find any method of changing the member name displayed in the Umbraco backend using the profile provider (the displayed name defaults to the user name). My 'obsolete' three lines of code are:

Member member = Member.GetMemberFromEmail(email);
member.Text = newUserName;
member.Save();

They work though and have the desired effect, so it is not a problem as such that I am posting, but I can't help wondering if I am missing another way of handling this?

I'd be interested to hear comments.