Personalization

Retrieving Personalization Information

ASP.NET personalization features include user profiles, themes, error pages, and lots more. The ASP.NET user profile is designed for persistent storage of structured data through a type-safe API. Personalization allows information about visitors to be persisted so that the information can be useful to the visitor when he visits your site again. This needs a kind of persistence that goes beyond the session state.

Specifically, a system-level infrastructure requires retrieving and loading the user's data when the request begins its processing. At the end of the request, the current settings should be persisted on the server to be retrieved with the next request issued by the same user.