'System.Web.HttpApplication.User' is a 'property' but is used like a 'type'

Question

I am new to MVC3 and I am trying to implement customer user and role Authentication. I am able to validate the user using my custom database but now I want to use my custom roles out of the same table. I followed the instructions from this link below to get this far:

MVC Custom Roles and Validation

The tutorial had me put this block of code in my global.asax file.

protected void FormsAuthentication_OnAuthenticate(Object sender, FormsAuthenticationEventArgs e)
{
    if (FormsAuthentication.CookiesSupported == true)
    {
        if (Request.Cookies[FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName] != null)
        {
            try
            {
                //let us take out the username now
                string roles = string.Empty;
                string username = FormsAuthentication.Decrypt(Request.Cookies[FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName].Value).Name;

                using (RecipeEntities entities = new RecipeEntities())
                {
                   **-->> User user = entities.KeyFobUsers.Single(u => u.username == username);

                    roles = user.AccessLevel.Trim();
                }
                //let us extract the roles from our own custom cookie
                //Let us set the Pricipal with our user specific details
                e.User = new System.Security.Principal.GenericPrincipal(new System.Security.Principal.GenericIdentity(username, "Forms"), roles.Split(';'));
            }
            catch
            {
                //something went wrong
            }
        }
    }
}

Currently in the script above MVC has 'User' underlined stating that 'System.Web.HttpApplication.User' is a 'property' but is used like a 'type'

I have googled around and tried the links I found on Stack but nothing was geared towards my issue. I am just trying to get the role out of my custom database table into the Roles of MVC so I can use permissions on certain windows.

Does anyone have any suggestions or want to push me in the right direction?

Answer 1

The compiler is conflicted with the User property of the HttpApplication and the User class. You can use var instead to avoid the conflict:

var user = entities.KeyFobUsers.Single(u => u.username == username);

Or fully qualify the User class with the namespace it's in:

MyNamespace.User user = ...