pass values or data from one page to another when you use Login control in ASP.NET 2.0

Question

I am using Login Control available in ASP.NET 2.0 in the login page. Once the user is authenticated successfully against database, I am redirecting the user to home.aspx. Here,

Answer 1

If you are using standard asp.net authentication then you should be able to access the users name through the User property of the page object.

User.Identity.Name

As Andrew suggested, Session is a common place to place a user name, though I avoid using session at all if possible.

You could set a cookie with the users name.

You could also set the DestinationPageUrl property of the login control to include the username in the query string. Though that feels/looks pretty lame.