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Asked: 2026-06-12T06:43:03+00:00

I’m writing an Asp.net MVC application (my first MVC app). I need to pass

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I’m writing an Asp.net MVC application (my first MVC app). I need to pass data to the _Layout view to customize the header and footer on my pages – which user is logged in, if they have any notifications, etc. The _Layout page always needs this information, but the child pages do not.

How should I pass this data to the view? Can I create a LoggedInUser property that the view can access, in the same way there is a Model and ViewBag? LoggedInUser could be populated by the base controller class.

Or is there a better way to implement this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re using MembershipProvider and/or RoleProvider you can do as webdeveloper pointed out to get the identity of the current user User.Identity.Name, if showing it’s name is what you want.

    Also you could type your _layout to use a specific model, but I don’t recommend it. See this question‘s answer for further details.

    Lastly you could populate a ViewBag property on your controllers to have the user information you need.

    I wanted to point out that you could do a partial view to achieve this, and avoid _layout typing and populating the ViewBag on each request.

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