How to add Welcome username in all pages

Question

How to display “Welcome %username%” in all the webpages, is there any possibly to make it in the Master page? if so, where in master page should i write the code, in page_load??

Answer 1

There is a login name control in asp.net to show this information. Just place it on your Master page like this:

<asp:LoginView runat="server">
    <LoggedInTemplate>
        Welcome <asp:LoginName runat="server" />
    </LoggedInTemplate>
</asp:LoginView>

It will show login name only for logged in users.

If you need this information somewhere else, you can use current user identity to get the name using current http context:

if (HttpContext.Current.User.IsAuthenticated)
{
     string currentUserName = HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name;
}