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C# User Authentication with ASP.NET Identity Adding User Sign-In and Sign-Out Refactoring the Menu Into a Partial View

Mark Ramos
Mark Ramos
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Posted by Mark Ramos
Mark Ramos
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Displaying custom profile field for First Name instead of Email Address

I wanted to try displaying the logged-in user's First Name instead of their email address as suggested in the tutorial, and read through the link (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn818488.aspx) provided. I eventually got it to work, but I feel like I didn't quite understand what I did and am wondering if I did it the most correct way. I get lost on the article at the link above when he starts to get into RavenDB.

User.cs

using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework;

namespace Treehouse.FitnessFrog.Shared.Models
{
    public class User : IdentityUser
    {
        // added fields
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }
    }
}

AccountController.cs Register POST method

[HttpPost]
public async Task<ActionResult> Register(AccountRegisterViewModel viewModel)
{
            // code here removed for brevity, same as in course
            // Instantiate a User object
            var user = new User { UserName = viewModel.Email, Email = viewModel.Email, FirstName = viewModel.FirstName, LastName = viewModel.LastName };

            // code here removed for brevity, same as in course

    return View(viewModel);
}

_Menu.cshtml

<div class="navbar-right">
  @if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
  {
     // code here removed for brevity, same as in course
    // new code start
    var manager = new ApplicationUserManager(new UserStore<User>(new Context()));
    var currentUser = manager.FindById(User.Identity.GetUserId());
    <h5 class="navbar-text" style="margin-top:20px; ">
      Hey @currentUser.FirstName!
    </h5>
   // new code end
  // code here removed for brevity, same as in course
</div>

The changes above show the first name in the header, but was this the best way to go about it?