How to add a view for current user details in MVC?

Question

MVC 2, so I do not know if it is different. I am trying to add a page so that when a user is logged in, they click on their username at the upper right of the page, and it takes them to a page showing their details (email, change password link, profile information, etc..). I am trying to use the aspnet MembershipService to do this.

Answer 1

It will be the same as in 1.0, and as asked here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263486/how-to-get-current-user-in-asp-net-mvc

Answer 2

In your controller action do something like :

string id = HttpContext.User.Identity.Name.ToString();

ProfileBase profileBase;
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(id))
       profileBase = ProfileBase.Create(id);
else
       profileBase = HttpContext.Profile as ProfileBase;

With the profileBase object you can get all the profile attributes:

profileBase.GetPropertyValue("PersonalInformation.FirstName")

With these properties you can fill a custom view model object, for example:

public class ProfileInformation
{
   public string FirstName { get; set; }
}

and pass it to the view:

return View(profileInformation);

In the view declare you''ll receive a ProfileInformation object like this :

<%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master"
    Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage<AzureBright.Models.ProfileInformation>" %>

And then generate the Editor fields like this:

<%= Html.EditorFor(profile => profile)%>

Hope this is what you wanted to know