Imar,

I have the LoginName as part of the footer of the MasterPage.

For test purposes, LoginName1.FormatString = "Demo: Welcome, {0}" is in the Page_Load event of the MasterPage.

LoginName1.FormatString = "Demo: Welcome, " + Context.User.Identity.Name also seems to work displaying "Demo: Welcome, Dave" as an example.

I would like to include the email address of the logged in person so that it would display "Demo: Welcome, Dave<xxxxx,@yy.zz>".

Below is what I tried. This value seems to populate if I assign it to a textbox of a page, but doesn't seem to work on the MasterPage footer.

LoginName1.FormatString = "Demo: Welcome, " + Context.User.Identity.Name + "<" + Membership.GetUser().Email().ToString + ">"

Hi there,

I am not exactly sure where you are calling this in the Master Page, but it could be that you're too late. In addition, you're not really setting a FormatString anymore (e.g. no {0}) so there's not much to Format for ASP.NET.

If you are already building up the entire welcome text, drop the LoginName control and simply assign the text to a Label instead:

And another thing: could it be that it *does* work but you're not seeing the e--mail address?

<[email protected]> will be interpreted as an unknown tag by the browser and thus ignored.

Try "%gt;" and "&lt;" instead.

Cheers,

Imar

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You were right, it does work. All that was needed was to use "&lt;" and "&gt;". Such an easy fix with all the time spent trying other approaches that didn't work.

Imar, your the best.

Thanks again.