Asp.net, where to store the username of logged in user?

Question

When a user log into my asp.net site I use the following code:

FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(userid, false);

As I often need to use the userid I can then later get the userid by:

string userid = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;

Now I also want to show the logged in username on each page and my questions is therefore where do I place the username best if I need to use it on every page. User.Identity.Name is already taken by the userid so I can't use that one. Another solution would be to get the username from the database on each page, but that seems like a bad solution.

So: Is the best way to use Sessions to store the username?

Answer 1

You can store just about anything in SessionState in asp.net. Just be careful and store the right things in the right places (you can also use ViewState to store variables.

Check this out for how to use SessionState to store and retrieve variables across postbacks.