Tag: profile
Profile Provider Exception
Posted by bsstahl on 2006-10-07 and Filed Under: development
While working on a custom Profile provider, I needed to set the values in a SettingPropertyValuesCollection object to pass to the SetPropertyValues method of the provider. Using the code below, I was always getting a NullReferenceException when the provider attempted to read the values out of the collection.
Dim objProperties As New System.Configuration.SettingsPropertyValueCollection
Dim objProperty As New System.Configuration.SettingsProperty"BirthDate")
objProperty.PropertyValue = #2/14/2004#
Dim objPropertyValue As New System.Configuration.SettingsPropertyValue(objProperty)
objProperties.Add(objPropertyValue)
The problem occurs because the collection doesn't know what type to assign the value to coming out of the collection. By modifying the code as follows, I specify the type of the property, and the process executes as expected.
Dim objProperties As New System.Configuration.SettingsPropertyValueCollection
Dim objProperty As New System.Configuration.SettingsProperty("BirthDate")
objProperty.PropertyValue = #2/14/2004#
objProperty.PropertyType = GetType(System.DateTime)
Dim objPropertyValue As New System.Configuration.SettingsPropertyValue(objProperty)
objProperties.Add(objPropertyValue)