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+3  Q: 

How do I get the user (IPrincipal) from a partial view in ASP.NET MVC?

On a System.Web.UI.Page.ViewPage I have access to the current User (System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal) but I don't have access to the User through a System.Web.UI.UserControl.ViewUserControl (the ViewPage property is internal).

How can my partial view (.ascx) display information depending on who the IPrincipal is?

+1  A:  
HttpContext.Current.User
Mehrdad Afshari  2009-05-17 10:17:30
Ok -- this is old, but I stumbled on it anyway ;0If you do this, you will break unit testing -- use ViewContext.HttpContext.* which uses HttpContextBase and was designed for unit testing.
Ethan J. Brown  2010-08-09 23:27:23
+7  A:  
ViewContext.HttpContext.User
Marwan Aouida  2009-05-17 10:22:49
This answer is more correct for ASP.NET MVC
eu-ge-ne  2009-05-17 11:30:25
+1  A: 

You can get to it via the ViewContext

ViewContext.HttpContext.User
sighohwell  2009-05-17 10:24:36

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