Greetings.

I'm having problems for reading a custom Profile Property from module source code.
I created the property (Users - Profile Properties - added as a Text with length 10).
I can WRITE the property (because I see value in database, table userprofile), but cannot READ it.

 Code (commented lines were unsuccessful attempts):

DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo ui = DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserController.GetCurrentUserInfo();
//string credits = ui.Profile.GetPropertyValue("Credits");
//string credits = ui.Profile.ProfileProperties.GetByName("Credits").PropertyValue;
//foreach (DotNetNuke.Entities.Profile.ProfilePropertyDefinition def2 in ui.Profile.ProfileProperties)
//    credits += "<BR>" + def2.PropertyName;
if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(credits))
{
 credits = new Random().Next().ToString();
 DotNetNuke.Entities.Profile.ProfilePropertyDefinition def = DotNetNuke.Entities.Profile.ProfileController.GetPropertyDefinitionByName(0, "Credits");
 ui.Profile.ProfileProperties.Add(def);
 ui.Profile.SetProfileProperty("Credits", credits);
 DotNetNuke.Entities.Profile.ProfileController.UpdateUserProfile(ui, ui.Profile.ProfileProperties);
}
return credits;
 

Can anyone help me?

Thank you,
Ricardo

Has anyone figured this out?  I have found many posts from people asking how to read user defined profile properties, but no answers.

Other than reading from the database, is it possible to read user-defined profile properties in DNN 5?

Many, many thanks to anyone who can solve...

Thanks Bill - it works perfectly.  Here's the c-sharp version of Bill's code in case others want it...

        protected string GetProfilePropertyValue(string propertyName)
        {
            string value;

            ProfilePropertyDefinition ppd = UserInfo.Profile.GetProperty(propertyName);

            if (ppd == null)
            {
                value="";
            }
            else
            {
                value = ppd.PropertyValue;
                if (value==null)
                {
                    if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(ppd.DefaultValue))
                        value = String.Empty;
                    else
                        value = ppd.DefaultValue;
                }
            }
            return value;
        }