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User Authentication with ASP.NET Identity

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Displaying the Current User's Identity

Now that we have our menu in its own partial view, let's update it to display the signed-in user's username.

Every ASP.NET MVC view provides a User.Identity property that provides access to the identity of the currently authenticated user. The User.Identity property is of type System.Security.Principal.IIdentity, which contains a Name property. When using ASP.NET Identity, this prope...