Question

I am looking to display the current username logged in the header in the layout file. What is the best way to accomplish this? I am not currently passing any model into the layout file. Also, if noone is logged in, I don’t want to display a username obviously

Answer 1

It’s on the _LogOnPartial.cshtml view on the default template!

@if(Request.IsAuthenticated) {
    <text>Welcome <b>@Context.User.Identity.Name</b>!
    [ @Html.ActionLink("Log Off", "LogOff", "Account") ]</text>
}
else {
    @:[ @Html.ActionLink("Log On", "LogOn", "Account") ]
}