How to get current member in a Razor macro

Question

I have asked this question on the Our Umbraco forums, however I wanted to also increase my chances of getting a solution by posting the same question here.

The issue I have is that, inside a Razor macro, I'm unable to get the current Member who is accessing the site. I have tried the following methods:

• Calling Member.GetCurrentMember(), but this returns NULL.
• Calling Membership.GetUser(), but this returns NULL
• Calling UmbracoEnsuredPage.CurrentUser returned NULL;

Is there another way to get the current Member seeing how the above methods do not work in my case?

Answer 1

var m = Membership.GetUser(); 

That should work, just verified it myself on 4.7.1; it will return NULL if you are not logged in as a member, but when you log in it should get you what you want.

Answer 2

Just a slight change from @E.J.Brennan if the NULL is an issue you can check if you are logged on before trying to GetUser():

if (umbraco.library.IsLoggedOn())
{
  m = Membership.GetUser();
}

Answer 3

Starting from v7 you can use the MembershipHelper

@Members.CurrentUserName
@Members.GetCurrentMember()
@Members.GetCurrentMemberId()