Question

This might be a silly question but whats the best practise for getting a userid. I have created an mvc app using the membership provider and have it all wired up and working.
I have a number of controllers that require the userID to perform crud actions and need to be able to use it.

Do I store it in a cookie or is there a better way of doing it?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Answer 1

You shouldn’t have to worry about messing around with cookies or anything like that–Membership should take care of all that for you. All you need to do is check if the user is authenticated, and if so pull out the username

HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated;

and

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