type or namespace name 'ProfileCommon' could not be found
I recently hit this compile error while converting a Visual Studio web site project to a VS2008 Web App project: The type or namespace name 'ProfileCommon' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Turns out that Web Applications don't support the auto generation of the ProfileCommon object like web site projects do. To get this to work install this VS addin and then add it to the build process as described here.
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