How do I get the current user in an MVC Application?

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How to get current user in Asp.Net MVC

I've tried a bunch of different things, I know I've done it before when I used Webforms, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it in MVC.

Membership doesn't work User gives me an IPrincipal or something User.Identity gives me the same type of variable...

Anyone know? Is there any GetCurrentUser() method or something similar?

duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/263486/how-to-get-current-user-in-asp-net-mvc — Jacob Mattison, Jun 25 '09 at 17:33
wow that's hilarious, I always check the list of recommended questions after I type in the title and the title is almost the exact same... my apologies — Matt, Jun 25 '09 at 17:42
Just tried Page.User.Identity as well as Page.CurrentUser. Both of them give me an error saying System.Web.UI.Page does not contain a definition for "CurrentUser" or "User.Identity" in the case of the first one — Matt, Jun 25 '09 at 17:49
check do you have any class named "Page" within your project — Rony, Jun 25 '09 at 17:51
No I don't. The error says it's referencing System.Web.UI.Page — Matt, Jun 25 '09 at 17:57
I'm trying to access it from within a Control, does that matter? — Matt, Jun 25 '09 at 18:00

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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He explains that you can to use

User.Identity // in the controller
HttpContext.User.Identity // in the controller
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity // anywhere

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

Community

answered Jun 26 '09 at 06:46

Matt

Rony · Answer 2 · 2009-06-25T17:51:27.783

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Page.User.Identity

Page should be referencing System.Web.UI.Page

check do you have any class named "Page" within your project

edited Jun 25 '09 at 17:51

answered Jun 25 '09 at 17:37

Rony

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