Profile Provider in Asp.Net MVC

Finding very little information on how to  implement Profiles in Asp.Net MVC, I thought I'd share my solution to implement this.

For demonstration purposes, let's assume you want to store a user's First and Last Name only.

Firstly I created a "UserProfile" class that derive from "System.Web.Profile.ProfileBase" and implemented it as follows:

    public class UserProfile : ProfileBase
    {
        [SettingsAllowAnonymous(false)]
        public string FirstName
        {
            get { return base["FirstName"] as string; }
            set { base["FirstName"] = value; }
        }

        [SettingsAllowAnonymous(false)]
        public string LastName
        {
            get { return base["LastName"] as string; }
            set { base["LastName"] = value; }
        }

        public static UserProfile GetUserProfile(string username)
        {
            return Create(username) as UserProfile;
        }

        public static UserProfile GetUserProfile()
        {
            return Create(Membership.GetUser().UserName) as UserProfile;
        }
    }

That being done, I ensure my Profile Provider have been set up properly in my web.config (note how I inherit from the above class)

    <profile inherits="Krok.Core.BusinessLogic.Models.Account.UserProfile">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider"
             type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider"
             connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />
      </providers>
    </profile>

As I like to keep logic seperated, and also only use strongly typed view models, I created a view model class seperately:

    public class UserProfileViewModel
    {
        [DisplayName("First Name")]
        [DataType(DataType.Text)]
        public string FirstName { get; set; }

        [DisplayName("Last Name")]
        [DataType(DataType.Text)]
        public string LastName { get; set; }
    }

Now, I created two action methods, one for displaying a user's profile, one for editing it:

        [Authorize]
        public ViewResult Profile()
        {
            UserProfile profile = UserProfile.GetUserProfile(User.Identity.Name);
            var model = new UserProfileViewModel
                                             {
                                                 FirstName = profile.FirstName,
                                                 LastName = profile.LastName
                                             };
           
            return View(model);
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [Authorize]
        public ActionResult Profile(UserProfileViewModel model)
        {
            if (ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                UserProfile profile = UserProfile.GetUserProfile(User.Identity.Name);
                profile.FirstName = model.FirstName;
                profile.LastName = model.LastName;
                profile.Save();
                return RedirectToRoute("Account.Profile");
            }
            return View(model);
        }

Now, you obviously just will create two views, both strongly typed (UserProfileViewModel)

Hope this help for anyone that need to implement Profiles in a Asp.Net MVC application.