A field initializer cannot reference the non-static field, method, or property 'Controller.HttpContext'

Question

I am trying to get the user that is using the application in the controller by doing this:

public class TableNameController : Controller
{
    private ConnectionS         


        

Answer 1

You cannot use field initializer for what you trying to do, but you can easily use instance constructor for that:

public class TableNameController : Controller
{
    ...
    private string userIdentity;

    public TableNameController() {
        userIdentity = HttpContext.User.Identity.Name.Split('\\')[1].Replace(".", " ");
    }

    ...