BizTalk Blog by Chris Han

I did my first webpart page following the article Building Web Parts, Part 2 by Wei-Meng Lee 

 I got this 'The specified display mode is currently disabled on this page. Make sure personalization is enabled for the current user.' error when I try to switch to 'Design Mode' with my own SqlPersonalizationProvider. I think it's because the “personalization” has to be done under a registered user profile, so I logon as a registere user first before try this webpart part in design mode. Everything works as expected now.

I'm using my own SQL profile provider here is the config file:

  <anonymousIdentification
            enabled="true"
            cookieName=".ASPXANONYMOUS"
            cookieTimeout="43200"
            cookiePath="/"
            cookieRequireSSL="false"
            cookieSlidingExpiration="true"
            cookieProtection="All"
            cookieless="UseCookies"/>

  <profile  defaultProvider="mySqlProfileProvider" automaticSaveEnabled="true" enabled="true">
   <providers>
    <clear />
    <add name="mySqlProfileProvider"
    type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
    connectionStringName="TelematicallLocalSqlServer"
    applicationName="mynet"
    />
   </providers>
   <properties>
    <add name="HasMigrated" type="System.Boolean" defaultValue="false"/>
    <add name="Culture" type="System.String" allowAnonymous="true" defaultValue="en-US"/>
    <add name="Theme" type="System.String" allowAnonymous="true" defaultValue="mynet"/>
    <add name="LastVisitPage" type="System.String" allowAnonymous="true" defaultValue=""/>
    <group name="PersonInfo">
     <add name="PalList" type="System.Collections.ArrayList"/>
     <add name="PersonId" type="System.Int32" defaultValue="" readOnly="false"/>
     <add name="FullName" type="System.String" defaultValue="" />
     <add name="AddressId" type="System.Int32" defaultValue="" readOnly="false"/>
    </group>
   </properties>
  </profile>

  <webParts>
   <personalization
      defaultProvider="mySqlPersonalizationProvider">
    <providers>
     <add name="mySqlPersonalizationProvider"
        type="System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.SqlPersonalizationProvider"
        connectionStringName="TelematicallLocalSqlServer"
        applicationName="mynet" />
    </providers>
    <authorization>
     <deny users="*" verbs="enterSharedScope" />
     <allow users="?" verbs="modifyState" />
    </authorization>
   </personalization>
  </webParts>