FormsAuthentication problem

I 'form authenticate' users like this in the controller:

FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(User.Email, false);

(provided that the credential are valid of course).

Usually, I can access the username of the user like this in a view (I just started to use razor):

@Html.Encode(Page.User.Identity.Name)

Unfortunately, I get:

Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference

I presume that:

 FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(User.Email, 开发者_如何学JAVAfalse);

did not work correctly (login and consequent redirect work fine though).

Can anyone see something wrong? Thanks!

Christian

Don't use Page. You have access to User from within the view on its own.

@Html.Encode(User.Identity.Name)

You can use HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name. I would suggest passing the username in as part of your ViewModel though instead of escaping into Asp.Net framework territory.