title: Setting Umbraco Member Properties
body: <p>I am having a bit of trouble trying to access/edit Umbraco Member properties.</p>
  
  <p>I have created a property in Umbraco for my members and I can set this fine using the Umbraco Backend.</p>
  
  <p>However, I am trying to to access/edit these properties within my own code.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Member umbracoUser = new Member(1077);
  umbracoUser.getProperty("isDisabled").Value = "1";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When assiging the value to the property I get an error saying</p>
  
  <pre><code>Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I can get access to everything else on the umbracoUser object, such as LoginName and Email etc, but cant get the properties that I have created.</p>