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• Stephan

  Posted on Jul 9, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi there,

  
  

  I'm using Sitefinity 3.6

  
  

  On my local machine everything works fine, but on the webserver there is a problem with the Profile provider.

  When I disable the profile provider there is no problem, except of course I cannot add new users etc..

  
  

  The error message is: 

  Description:An error occurred during the compilation of a resource required to servicethis request. Please review the following specific error details and modify yoursource code appropriately.
  
  Compiler Error Message: CS0246: Thetype or namespace name 'ProfileCommon' could not be found (are you missing ausing directive or an assembly reference?)
  
  
  

  regards Stephan

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• Parvan Parvan

  Posted on Jul 13, 2009 (permalink)

  Hello Stephan,
  
  

  The ProfileCommon class is generated at runtime and it is holding the profile data for a user. The problem comes from the disabling of the profile. The FirstName and LastName of the user are stored in the profile. And that is why the profile must be enabled in order to work with users.
  
  Is your project running in Medium trust? Could you please show us the whole stack trace?

  
  

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  Parvan
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• Corby Bender

  Posted on Jan 12, 2011 (permalink)

  I'm trying to update a Sitefinity 3.7 site to use the Sitefinity 3.7 SP4 (so I can then update that using the migration tool here http://sitefinitymigration.codeplex.com/, which requires 3.7 SP4 to work).
  
  Following the instructions found here, http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/upgrade-instructions.aspx, I've got everything put in place and have attempted to build.  The 6 errors I get back all relate to "ProfileCommon" being missing.  If what you stated above would fix my problem, how does one go about re-enabling a disabled profile.  I don't see anything in the web.config so I'm not sure where to look.  Please advise and thank you!

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Jan 12, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Stephan,
  
  Do you have these lines in the web.config?
  
  

  <profile defaultProvider="Sitefinity">  

        <providers>          

          <clear />

          <add name="Sitefinity" connectionStringName="DefaultConnection" applicationName="/" type="Telerik.DataAccess.AspnetProviders.TelerikProfileProvider, Telerik.DataAccess" />

        </providers>

        <properties>

          <add name="FirstName" />

          <add name="LastName" />

          <add name="Position" />

          <add name="Photo_Hidden" />

         ...

               ....

        </properties>

      </profile>

  
  
  Greetings,
  Ivan Dimitrov
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• Corby Bender

  Posted on Jan 12, 2011 (permalink)

  Yes, that is in my original web.config file that i'm using for the project I'm trying to upgrade as well as the new_web.config I'm comparing it to for the SP4 upgrade.  It's there word for word.

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• Corby Bender

  Posted on Jan 12, 2011 (permalink)

  I found something that appears to be working.
  http://www.programgood.net/2010/08/07/SiteFinityAsAWebApplicationProject.aspx
  
  Where they commented out the ProfileCommon and replaced it with their WebProfile line below, it turns out we have a common library for our projects and it contains a WebProfile.  After I fixed the 6 references to ProfileCommon to use our library's xyzName.WebProfile, I can now build with no errors.  Tnx.

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• Ivan Dimitrov Ivan Dimitrov

  Posted on Jan 12, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello Stephan,
  
  This works only if you use a web application, not a web.project. By default Web application is supported since Sitefinity 4.0 and we do not support web application in 3.x
  
  Kind regards,
  Ivan Dimitrov
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• Travis

  Posted on Apr 12, 2011 (permalink)

  Great so what's the answer?

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