Profiles Programming Workflow

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A typical series of events involved in programming with profiles includes:

  1. Initializing the Profiling System: once you have connected to the profile store, you can initialize the Profiling System using the appropriate profiles definition. For an example, see Code to Connect to the Profiles Store.
  2. Creating a new profile: you create an empty profile using a profile schema; after this, you can populate the properties of that profile and save it to the profiles store. For an example, see Code to Create a New Profile.
  3. Retrieving the profile by specifying the primary key value and the schema name, then setting multi-valued attributes on the profile. For an example, see Code to Retrieve a Profile.
  4. Retrieving profile schema information: you can retrieve a list of all defined profile schema names, then retrieve the schema corresponding to one of those names. For an example, see Code to Retrieve XML Data and Schema.
  5. Working with the Commerce Server OLEDB Provider to update profile information: you can use this provider to update and save profile data. For an example, see Code to Use the ProfileService Object or Commerce Server OLEDB Provider to Update Passwords.
  6. Decrypting cookies using an old encryption key: if you have stored obsolete keys, you can decrypt cookies stored with that obsolete key. For an example, see Code to Decrypt a Persistent Cookie after the Key has changed.
  7. Deleting profiles: care must be taken when deleting profiles due to possible expression dependencies on the deleted profile. For an example, see Code to Delete a Profile.

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