Problem I was trying to access the User object in Controller constructor so that I can get the logged in username in the constructor, but the User object was coming as null and as a result I was getting Null reference exception.
Solution The solution of this problem is to create an override method of Initialize by passing RequestContext object.
public class ChartsController : Controller
{
string _userName = string.Empty;
protected override void Initialize(System.Web.Routing.RequestContext requestContext)
{
base.Initialize(requestContext);
if (requestContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
{
_userName = requestContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.Name;
}
}
}
and then we can access the User object. The same is applicable for Session or any other object inside HttpContext.
Hope this helps.
Thanks
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Sheo Narayan
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