Question

I tried to get the current user Id through the User.Identity but in vain, i found This post
that guided me to do the following : Guid userGuid = (Guid)Membership.GetUser().ProviderUserKey;

i went through the same mistake as in This Post! however the solution provided didn’t work in my case. I have an accounts model as

 public class Account
{

    public int ID { get; set; }
    ......

}

i want to link the billing information created to the currently logged in user
so i tried doing the following as suggested

 if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
            {
                Guid userGuid = (Guid)Membership.GetUser().ProviderUserKey;
                billinginfo.User = db.AccountSet
                                   .Where(x => x.ID == userGuid).FirstOrDefault();  
            }

and i have the obvious error :

Operator ‘==’ cannot be applied to operands of type ‘int’ and ‘System.Guid’
i couldn’t get an answer from This Post
i tried to convert the Guid to int but that generated a wrong id since the conversion is utmost to 64 bits

So i want to get the currently logged in user and be able to access all his attributes

Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

You cannot compare integer with a GUID. It doesn’t make sense. In order to relate the 2 tables you will have to use the same datatype column in both of them.