How to pass the current user to a web control declaratively

Question

I'm creating a control and need to pass it the current logon user as a parameter (declaratively)

I tried this but didn't work (I got "<%= User.Identity.Name %>" as value):

<cc1:MyControl id="myid" runat="server" User="<%= User.Identity.Name %>" />

Is there a way to do it?

Answer 1

Try using:

User="<%= User.Identity.Name %>"

%= is for output

%# is for databinding.

Answer 2

Try changing the double quotes in the User attribute to single quotes. I've seen that work in the past...

Answer 3

Inside that control, you will have access to this.Page.User, so that's one way. Another is to use HttpContext.Current.User.

Answer 4

Why do you need to pass it at all?. The user control can access the User.Identity.Name property directly.

Answer 5

You can do this in the codebehind:

myid.User = User.Identity.Name