How to access custom fields in ASP.Net Identity User?

Question

I have added more custom fields to the ApplicationUser class from Asp.Net Identity. I've needed fields like user's full name, location and etc.

Now I need to access those parameters in some of the views. For example to get the UserName I can simply get it with User.Identity.GetUserName() .

How do I access the FullName, Location and other properties from the ApplicationUser class inside the views?

Answer 1

Have you consider using Claim ? Claim will automatically loaded to Context Identity when the user sign in.

Add claim when user is created

await userManager.AddClaimAsync(user.Id, new Claim("FullName", user.FullName));

Create extension to Identity

namespace MyApps.Extension
{
    public static class IdentityExtension
    {
        public static string GetFullName(this IIdentity identity)
        {
            if (identity == null)
                return null;

            var fullName = (identity as ClaimsIdentity).FirstOrNull("FullName");

            return fullName;
        }


        internal static string FirstOrNull(this ClaimsIdentity identity, string claimType)
        {
            var val = identity.FindFirst(claimType);

            return val == null ? null : val.Value;
        }
    }
}

Later use

httpContextAccessor.HttpContext.User.Identity.GetFullName()