Profiles Concepts and Tasks

Profiles provide the object model for Commerce Server Core Systems. You can use the built-in Commerce Server Core Systems  profiles, or you can create your own profile definitions.

In This Section

• What Are the Predefined Commerce Server Profiles?

• How Are Profiles Stored?

• What Is the Process for Creating Profile Definitions?

• What Are the SQL Server Security Requirements for Profiles?

• How to Create an Instance of a Profile

• How to Create a Profile Instance Using XML

• How to Access an Instance of a Profile

• Profiles Encryption and Decryption

• How to Access Embedded Profiles

• How to Use Multiple-Valued Profile Properties

• How to Search Profile Data

• How to Find the Profile of the Current User

• How to Create a Profile Independently from a Commerce Server Site

• Aggregation Across Multiple Data Sources

• How to Change the Profiles Primary Key

• How to Delete Multiple Profiles

• How to Bind Property Groups and Property Collections to Web Controls

• Using Profiles in a Web Farm Scenario

• How to Enumerate Properties and Property Groups for a Profile Instance

• How to Enumerate Attributes for a Profile Property

• How to Refresh a Profile Instance

• How to Serialize a Profile as XML

• How to Write Site Code to Register Users

• Migrating Anonymous Users to Registered Users

• Controlling How Profiles Are Displayed in the Customer and Orders Manager