How can I get CURRENT USERNAME in membership asp.net 2008

Question

Hello, I use a membership in asp.net 2008. And I build a login system with some rolls ...etc

I have a database and tables and the KEY is "username", and now I want to know how can I get a username for the member who logged in ?

for example: I logged in as TURKI I want to get the username TURKI

really I need for help...

thanks,

Answer 1

User.Identity.Name

User is a property of the page. If you need to access it elsewhere, you can use:

HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name

Answer 2

Context.User.Identity.Name

Answer 3

you can use the Membership.GetUser() method described here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.membership.getuser.aspx

also, if you do get the MembershipUser you could also get the 'ProviderUserKey' which uniquely identifies a user, possibly using that as your FK for your tables, that way your user can have their username updated without having to change all the keys in your tables.

Answer 4

A modification to Freddy's answer when using MVC - had to use:

HttpContext.User.Identity.Name

Slight change but figured I would post it in case anyone else trying to do this in MVC hits the same snag.