Hi Karsten,
I think you have missed the .value property on the end.
So basically your code should read:

string username = m.getProperty("PreferdUserName").Value.ToString();

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Neil

Neil,

thanks for your reply. I've tried that as well. Wenn accessing the the property that way I get a "object not set to a .. " error...

Karsten

Try hard coding the memberId in(just as a test) and getting the member that way i.e Member m = new Member(1234);

Then test to see if you can access the specific member property.

It could be that the member is coming back null, when you are calling Member m = Member.GetCurrent();

Cheers,
Neil

           string pValue = string.Empty; 
            if (!((m.getProperty(propertyAlias) == null) || string.IsNullOrEmpty(m.getProperty(propertyAlias).Value.ToString())))
            {
                pValue  =  m.getProperty(propertyAlias).Value.ToString();
            }

You should check if the property is not DBNull.Value

Property localeProperty = m.getProperty("memberProfileCustomerLocale");
String locale = (localeProperty.Value != DBNull.Value && (String)localeProperty.Value != "") ? (String)localeProperty.Value : "en-GB";

thanks everyone.. I should have been more precice in my problem description. Sorry!

I can debug in Visual Studio right upto the the Member m = Member.GetCurrent(); and can see that member object has been loaded.

I know which user I am testing and can see the Property PreferdUserName with a value in the admin / members dialog. So this is what is really confusing

Here the code I've been using to narrow down the problem. (Member has definetly  been loaded..)

         public override void Transfer(umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member.Member m)
        {
            //PropertyType.GetPropertyType();

            this.UserName = m.LoginName;
            //PropertyType    pt = new PropertyType();
            try
            {
                Property displayNameProp = m.getProperties.First(p => p.PropertyType.Alias == "PreferdUserName");
                string bla = "123";
            }
            catch (Exception ex) // no occurence found exception (because getProperties has a count of zero)
            {
                string e = ex.ToString();
            }

            try
            {
                Property  s = m.getProperty("PreferdUserName");
                string bla = s.Value.toString();
            }
            catch (Exception ex) // Null reference exception
            {
                string e = ex.ToString();
            }

        }

Hello Karsten,

did you try using the GenericProperties Proterty? Like this:

Property property = m.GenericProperties.Where(p => p.PropertyType.Alias == "PreferedUserName").FirstOrDefault();

this worked for me :)

Toby

When accessing GenericProperties I get:

"The type initializer for 'umbraco.cms.businesslogic.datatype.controls.Factory' threw an exception."

?

This is totally strang!

I tried your code and mine and bahm ran into the same error. After a littel bit of debugging moving the code to other places it suddenly worked even in the place where i got the error!

So there are two mor questions for me: 1. are you running in MediumTrust Environment? 2. Where does the call happen (some kind of handler/module, aspx page or usercontrol)?

Maybe this could get us closer to an answer...

I'm running the code from a REST WCF service which is running in the same website as umbraco. As mentioned above I can use other Umbraco API objects perfectly well. But that could be the issue.. I'll try and move  the code into a "normal" user and report

I moved the code into a user control and debugged it and it is still giving me errors. Strangely enough it worked once in the immeadiate window:

? m.getProperty("PreferdUserName")
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 122. RecordsReader created by CMSNode.setupNode. Open Data Readers: 2
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 122. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 123. RecordsReader created by ContentType.setupContentType. Open Data Readers: 2
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 123. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 124. RecordsReader created by ContentType.<get_PropertyTypes>b__0. Open Data Readers: 2
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 124. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 1
{umbraco.cms.businesslogic.property.Property}
    _data: {umbraco.cms.businesslogic.datatype.DefaultData}
    _id: 169
    _pt: {umbraco.cms.businesslogic.propertytype.PropertyType}
    Id: 169
    PropertyType: {umbraco.cms.businesslogic.propertytype.PropertyType}
    Value: "kg123"
    VersionId: {2f038821-cf46-49d0-9397-2147ee1c462c}

Later attempts even after an IISreset only produce this in the immediate window:

? m.getProperty("PreferdUserName")
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 75. RecordsReader created by Content.get_Version. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 75. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 0
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 76. RecordsReader created by CMSNode.setupNode. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 76. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 0
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 77. RecordsReader created by DataTypeDefinition.setupDataTypeDefinition. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 77. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 0
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 78. RecordsReader created by Document.GetDocumentsForRelease. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 78. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 0
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 79. RecordsReader created by Document.GetDocumentsForExpiration. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 79. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 0
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 80. RecordsReader created by Document.GetDocumentsForRelease. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 80. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 0
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 81. RecordsReader created by Document.GetDocumentsForExpiration. Open Data Readers: 1
w3wp.exe Information: 0 : 81. RecordsReader closed. Open Data Readers: 0

I read somewhere else that this getProperty Method will deprecated in the near future, (can't find the link now). Is there an alternative of doing this.. It should be so simple..

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