Profiles Objects

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This topic provides a brief description of the classes, interfaces, and enumerations in the Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Profiles namespace.

Classes

The following table describes the public classes in the Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Profiles namespace.

Class	Definition
CommerceProfileAlreadyExistsException	Exception that is raised when an instance of a profile already exists.
CommerceProfileModule	Creates the default ProfileContext class for the site.
CommerceProfileSystemException	Base class for exceptions that are raised by the Profiles System.
Profile	Represents a profile.
ProfileCollection	Represents a read-only collection of profile instances.
ProfileContext	Represents the Commerce Server profile service.
ProfileProperty	Represents a property of a profile.
ProfilePropertyAttribute	Represents an attribute of a property of a profile.
ProfilePropertyAttributeCollection	Represents a collection of ProfilePropertyAttributes.
ProfilePropertyCollection	Represents a collection of profile properties.
ProfilePropertyGroup	Represents a collection of profile properties and/or groups.
ProfilePropertyGroupCollection	Represents a collection of profile property groups.
SiteTerm	Represents a site term.
SiteTermElement	Represents a single valid value for a SiteTerm.
SiteTermElementCollection	Represents a collection of site term elements.

For more information about the relationships between these classes, see Profiles Object Model.

The following table describes the public interfaces in the Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Profiles namespace.

Interface	Definition
IProfileElements	Encapsulates the common collections that the Profileclass and the ProfilePropertyGroup class expose.

The following table describes the public enumerations in the Microsoft.CommerceServer.Runtime.Profiles namespace.

Enumeration	Definition
ProfileDataType	Specifies the data type of a ProfileProperty.
ProfileXmlFormat	Specifies the format of an XML string representing a Profile instance.
ProfileXmlRetrieve	Specifies the type of XML data to retrieve from a Profile instance.