Question

I ‘form authenticate’ users like this in the controller:

FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(User.Email, false);

(provided that the credential are valid of course).

Usually, I can access the username of the user like this in a view (I just started to use razor):

@Html.Encode(Page.User.Identity.Name)

Unfortunately, I get:

Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference

I presume that:

 FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(User.Email, false);

did not work correctly (login and consequent redirect work fine though).

Can anyone see something wrong? Thanks!

Christian

Answer 1

Don’t use Page. You have access to User from within the view on its own.

@Html.Encode(User.Identity.Name)