Extending ASP.NET Identity

Question

It seems this has been asked many times, in many ways, none of which seem to fit my exact situation.

Here's a line from my _LoginPartial.cshtml file:

@Html.ActionLink("Hello " + User.Identity.GetUserName() + "!", "Manage", "Account", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { title = "Manage" })

See the part that says User.Identity.GetUserName()?

I want to change it to User.Identity.FirstName or User.Identity.GetFirstName().

I don't want it to say "Hello email address", but rather "Hello Bob"

My thought is that I'm simply wanting to show a new property (or method) on the Identity class. Obviously it must be more than that.

I've added the FirstName property and it is available in the AccountController.

public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser
    {
        public string FirstName { get; set; }
        public string LastName { get; set; }

It does not get exposed in the _LoginPartial file. I want it exposed there!

Thank you for your help

Answer 1

Even though your answer wasn't "exactly" what I wanted, your comments led me to this solution:

@using Microsoft.AspNet.Identity
@using YourModelnameHere.Models
@if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
{
using (Html.BeginForm("LogOff", "Account", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "logoutForm", @class = "navbar-right" }))
{
    @Html.AntiForgeryToken()

    <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
        <li>
            @{
                var manager = new UserManager<ApplicationUser>(new Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework.UserStore<ApplicationUser>(new ApplicationDbContext()));
                var currentUser = manager.FindById(User.Identity.GetUserId()); 
            }
            @Html.ActionLink("Hello " + currentUser.FirstName + "!", "Manage", "Account", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { title = "Manage" })

            @Html.ActionLink("Hello " + User.Identity.GetUserName() + "!", "Manage", "Account", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { title = "Manage" }) // I no longer need this ActionLink!!!
        </li>
    </ul>
    }
}

And in my IdentityModel.cs file, I added the two properties FirstName and LastName

public class ApplicationUser : IdentityUser
{
    public string FirstName { get; set; }
    public string LastName { get; set; }
}