Last login time using the ASP.NET Membership API

Question

I want to find out the last login time for a user in my ASP.NET MVC 1.0 application. I'm using the Membership provider for authentication. Although I'm able to retrieve the last login time using:

public ActionResult LogOn(string userName, string password, bool rememberMe, string returnUrl)
    {

        if (!ValidateLogOn(userName, password))
        {
            return View();
        }

        string lastLogin = Membership.GetUser(userName).LastLoginDate.ToString();

This returns the current time from the column LastLoginDate from aspnet_Membership table. Is there a way to tap into the former login time before the records get updated? Are cookies the only way to do this?

Answer 1

Try to call the line before you do the ValidateLogOn. The LastLoginDate is updated if Membership.ValidateUser is called, and I suppose you call that in ValidateLogOn. So if you start your LogOn with your current last line then it should give you really the last login date....