title: ASP.net membership add custom column
body: <p>In my master page I have:</p>
  
  <pre><code>MembershipUser thisUser = Membership.GetUser();
  loggedInUserID = thisUser.ProviderUserKey.ToString();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><code>thisUser</code> gives me access to all the fields in <code>aspnet_Membership</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I want a new field, <code>isSubscribed</code> for each user.  I can use an SQL query to fetch the value fine, but I want to know if there is someway to modify the membershipuser object so it retrieves this value as well, so it is accessible from:</p>
  
  <pre><code>thisUser.isSubscribed.ToString();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help!</p>