A specified Include path is not valid. The EntityType does not declare a navigation property with the name *

Navigation property should be of entity type of collection of related entities. Including some navigation property means joining your current entity with some related entity or entities. That allows eager loading of data from several tables in single query. LastName is not a navigation property – it is simple field, and it will be loaded by default, you don’t need to include it:

UsersContext db = new UsersContext();
var users = db.UserProfiles.Where(u => u.UserId == WebSecurity.CurrentUserId)
                           .ToList();

This query will be translated into something like

SELECT UserId, UserName, LastName, FirstName 
FROM UserProfiles
WHERE UserId = @value

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