This property gets or sets the name of the application that the personalization information is specific to.

Declaration

// C#
public override string ApplicationName{get; set;}

Property Value

The name of the application. If the applicationName attribute is not specified in the application configuration file, or if the value is an empty string, then this property is set to the application virtual path.

Exceptions

HttpException - The caller does not have high trust for ASP.NET hosting.

ProviderException - The ApplicationName string is greater than 256 characters.

Remarks

The main purpose of the ApplicationName property is to scope the data managed by OraclePersonalizationProvider object. Applications that specify the same ApplicationName string when configuring the Web parts personalization service share personalization state, but applications that specify unique ApplicationName strings do not. The OraclePersonalizationProvider must associate the personalization state with application names so operations performed on personalization data sources can be scoped accordingly.

The following example shows typical code that the OraclePersonalizationProvider might use to retrieve the personalization state for a user named Scott and an application named App:

SELECT * FROM PersonalizationState
WHERE UserName='Scott' AND Path='~/Default.aspx'
AND ApplicationName='App'

The final AND in the WHERE clause ensures that other applications that contain personalization state keyed by the same user name and path do not conflict with the App application.

If no value is specified for the applicationName attribute in the configuration file, then the default is the ApplicationPath property value for the current request. The attribute name in the configuration file is case-sensitive.

The ApplicationName property is not thread-safe. It is recommended that application code not allow users to set the ApplicationName property in Web applications.