Question

I was using Membership.getUser() to get the currently logged in user but I recently discovered that each time this it called, the data is retrieved from the database.

If page.user also makes a call to the db then how can I get the currently logged on user without continuously hitting the db.

It would be difficult to store and manage this object in session.

Answer 1

Page.User will not hit the DB.

You can get the name of the currently logged in user from HttpContext without hitting the DB.

string userName = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;

OR

string userName = Page.User.Identity.Name;