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I am working on an MVC ASP .NET application. I am relatively new to both.
In a controller I am trying to get the current log on user, for which there seem to be two ways of doing this:
System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name Or
HttpContext.User.Identity.Name What is the difference between these? As far as a I can tell within the MVC framework the controller has the current HttpContext stored as a property so these methods are identical. Is that correct?
Yes, they will usually be identical. However, if you’re working with additional threads, they will not be;
System.Web.HttpContext.Currentis threadstatic.