Question

I would like to find a way to use custom User provider within a controllers ctor in order to not have to get the user on every method (dirty)..

This is what is in my ctor but keeps returning null?

Resource oResource;
public EntityController()
{
    try
    {
        DataEntities oEntities = new DataEntities();
        oResource = oEntities.Resources.Where(c => c.user == User.Identity.Name).First();
    }
    catch
    {
        oResource = new Resource();
    }
}

Answer 1

Override the Controller.Initialize() method and put your code in there. The controller’s context isn’t available in the constructor.

protected override void Initialize(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext)
{       
    base.Initialize(requestContext);
    // your code here
}

If you need the user’s entity on every action, then push the behavior into a base class that your controllers inherit from.