When & where to get the UserID of the Logged-In User

rah132 · February 21st, 2013, 07:46 PM

Imar:

I have placed the following code in the Login.LoggedIn event:

Code:

 Guid currentUserId = (Guid) Membership.GetUser().ProviderUserKey();

Suprisingly, this returns a null value.

If I run the same code in the Page Load event of the page pointed to by the Login component's "DestinationPageUrl" it returns the correct value. Am I missing something? I thought that the UserId would be available in the "LoggedIn" event.

Thanks,

Robin Howard

Imar · February 21st, 2013, 07:55 PM

Hi there,

LoggedIn fires after the post back and late in the page life cycle. That means that at that point the authentication hasn't been applied to the current request. Either redirect to another page (after which it will work), or use something like this:

Membership.GetUser(Login1.UserName)

Cheers,

Imar

rah132 · February 26th, 2013, 04:17 PM

Thank you.