Custom Identity in ASP.Net 2.0

[modika11]

Hi All,

I have created a custom membership provider which now works nicely in my app. But what i want to do now is extend the identity object to include a couple of extra properties such as userID and fullName so that i can grab it out of the current context without having to go back to the database. I know this was possible in 1.1 (and i am sure not much has changed) but i cant seem to find much documentation on it so am a little unsure if this is the best way to go.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Rob

 

[jmeckley]

David Hayden has some articles related to this topic

http://davidhayden.com/blog/dave/category/21.aspx.

you would need to use your custom Identity object and cast the IIdentity from the context to your type

public class MyCustomIdentity : IIdentity
{
   public string FullName { get; set; }
   public Int SomeNumber { get; set; }
}

when accessing the identity you will need to cast it

MyCustomIdentity identity = (MyCustomIdentity)HttpContext.Current.User.Identity;
string fullName = identity.FullName;
int number = identity.SomeNumber;

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[tperri]

This reminds me of that old Jerry O'Donnell show "My Secret Identity" from the late 80's/early 90's.

 

[modika11]

Thanks for your response Jason. tperri, i must have missed that one