So I watched the video on adding custom data to the authentication ticket by Joe Stagner.
In the video Joe is placing this peace of code in the Page_Load method of the Default.aspx page:
if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
FormsIdentity ident = (FormsIdentity)User.Identity;
if (ident != null)
{
FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = ident.Ticket;
string userDataString = ticket.UserData;
LabelMsg.Text = userDataString;
}
} So the idea is to grab the authentication ticket and then grab the UserData value that was added when the user was authenticated.
Well, I get the User in User.Identity (in the code) underlined with the message "The name 'User' does not exist in the current context".
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