Set Identity of Thread
In C#, how do I set the Identity of a Thread? For example, if I have Thread MyThread, which is already started, can I change MyThread's IIdentity ? Or is this unpossible? ...
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Store user id in Principal or Identity? ASP.Net/OpenID.
I have an ASP.Net MVC web application using forms authentication. I am using OpenID for authentication. At the moment the moment I'm storing the openID url inside the Name of the standard GenericIdentity. I would also like to have easy access to the database id for the user. I can make a custom provider or identity by overriding the Ap...
HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name is always string.Empty
Hi I use a custom MembershipProvider. I want to know the current username during an application scenario, but when I try accessing HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name it always returns string.Empty. if (Membership.ValidateUser(tbUsername.Text, tbPassword.Text)) { FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(tbUsername.Text, true); bool...
ASP.NET MVC - Set custom IIdentity or IPrincipal
I need to do something fairly simple: in my ASP.NET MVC application, I want to set a custom IIdentity / IPrincipal. Whichever is easier / more suitable. I want to extend the default so that I can call something like User.Identity.Id and User.Identity.Role. Nothing fancy, just some extra properties. I've read tons of articles and questio...
Moq custom IIdentity
Hi, I created a custom RoleProvider (standard webforms, no mvc) and I would like to test it. The provider itself integrates with a custom implementation of IIdentity (with some added properties). I have this at the moment: var user = new Mock<IPrincipal>(); var identity = new Mock<CustomIdentity>(); user.Setup(ctx => ctx.Identity).R...
Implementing a Custom Identity and IPrincipal in MVC
I have a basic MVC 2 beta app where I am trying to implement a custom Identity and Principal classes. I have created my classes that implement the IIdentity and IPrincipal interfaces, instantiated them and then assigned the CustomPrincipal object to my Context.User in Application_AuthenticateRequest of the Global.asax. This all succeed...
How do you override the WCF AuthenticationService IsLoggedIn() method?
I have three current thoughts on how to do this: re-implement AuthenticationService, which uses lots of internal constructors and internal helpers, implement custom IIdentity and IPrincipal types and somehow hook these into FormsAuthentication. give up and roll my own. The problem is that we've got web apps and fat client apps using ...
Custom IIdentity and passing data from an attribute to a controller
Here's my scenario: I've successfully created a custom IIdentity that I pass to a GenericPrincipal. When I access that IIdentity in my controller I have to cast the IIdentity in order to use the custom properties. example: public ActionResult Test() { MyCustomIdentity identity = (MyCustomIdentity)User.Identity; int userID = ide...