How to get current user logged in MVC 3?

Question

In my project, when user login, I had use

FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(model.UserName, model.RememberMe);

and in I need get current logged in user to get user's role. I don't know how to do that. Any one help me?

Answer 1

In your controller/action you can access this member variable to get the name

var x=HttpContext.User.Identity.Name;

I use this name to then look up and see if they are in role, depending on how you have implemented the Identity part and if you have a role provider you can also do things like this

var isAdmin=HttpContext.User.IsInRole("administrator");