How do you get the membership profile of a user in an ASP.NET MVC view?

Question

I'm using ASP.NET MVC and the Membership providers. How do I get the profile of a user in a view? any particular method to get it?

The template project out of the box access the username in this way:

<%= Html.Encode(Page.User.Identity.Name) %>

I'd like to have a similar way to access the profile data.

Answer 1

In MVC, you shouldn't access the profile directly in the view. You should fill a model object with values of the user profile in the controller and use the view to render those values.

Answer 2

Since Membership is handled at server side, if you want that information to be available at the View is either using your Session or the ViewData hash. So before you renders the page put the proper data or object as part of the ViewData or as part of the Session. If you are only using in one view, then I recommend ViewData.

Answer 3

The way to access the user profile on MVC is through the Profile variable in the view, like this:

<%= Profile %>