How to get recently authenticated user?

Question

I am working with MVC 3 and I have just implemented a wrapper for the FormsAuthenticationService.

Something similar to the following.

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Answer 1

You haven't actually stored a user id in the database. All the code that you've written does is store an authentication cookie on the users computer, either as a session cookie (not persistent) or as a persistent one.

When your page refreshes, it will get the cookie automatically, decode it, and populate the IPrincipal object which you access from the User.Current property of your controller.