How to display Name instead of UserName with User.Identity.Name in MVC

Question

There are many topics on this issue, did not found one to fit my wish.

In MVC5, in _LoginPartial, there is this function User.Identity.GetUserName(), which is displaying the UserName of the actual user.

I want to display the Name, from ApplicationUser, which contain the properties:

public ApplicationUser()
{
   Name = FirstName + " " + LastName;
}
public FirstName {get;set;}
public LastName {get;set;}
public Name {get;}

I have the posibility to use a static function to get the Name, like:

function.Name(User.Identity.GetUserId()).

I do not want to query again the database, I want to use this User.Identity.Name, but this function is returning the UserName, I need to override somehow.

How can I get the Name, using User.Identity.Name?

follow this link it may help you http://stackoverflow.com/a/4614049/2798643 — Govinda Rajbhar, Oct 23 '15 at 09:49
Add the UserName claim when logging in, read it from the Identity. — CodeCaster, Oct 23 '15 at 09:55
See my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32880269/how-to-do-session-management-in-aspnet-identity/32991423#32991423 — Brendan Green, Oct 23 '15 at 10:09

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 16 '18 at 10:27

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User.FindFirst("name").Value

i.e. search through claims to get the display string. "name" = display name for the identity fetched.

edited Oct 16 '18 at 10:27

Marco

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answered Jun 27 '17 at 09:40

DKumar

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Hi @Dkumar, if you put four spaces in front of your code, it'll be formatted as code which helps clarify the different sections of your answer. – Tom Jun 27 '17 at 09:44

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '15 at 13:49

Off the top of my head UserManager has a method to get ApplicationUser from UserId. Then with the ApplicationUser object you can get the Name property. Something like:

ApplicationUser user = UserManager.GetUserById(User.Identity.GetUserId());
user.Name;

How to display Name instead of UserName with User.Identity.Name in MVC

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