Question

On my asp.net website I have membership functions enabled which require users to login.
I would like to store the username in the session data for a query which will be used once they have logged in.

On my login page I have the following code to store the session data but it does not work:

Session["UserName"] = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;

The query will not load any results because the control parameter (session[username]) returns empty.

Can anyone suggest what could be the reason why its not working?

Answer 1

often the user info isn’t available until the next page load.

You may have to redirect to a “hop” page after login and redirect back to the page the user requested.

Here’s how to do it with MVC

Login:

public ActionResult Login(LoginModel model, string returnUrl)
{
    if (ModelState.IsValid)
    {
        return Hop(returnUrl);
    }
}

Hop page: It’s at this point that the user info is actually available.

public ActionResult Hop(string returnUrl)
{
    Session["UserName"] = User.Identity.Name;
    return Redirect(returnUrl);
}