Reverted to Membership from Identity and getting strange result for logged in user name

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Using VS2013 Update 1 I created a new WebForms project. This project uses the "new" Identity membership provider. I did not want to use that so I reverted back to the Membership provider (For more detail see Webforms HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated always true) I must still have something still wrong as once the user has authenticated when I inspect: ``` System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name ``` I am getting: ``` "/" ``` as the result instead of the name the user entered when they logged in via: Membership.ValidateUser(txtUserName.Text, txtPassword.Text) ie. why am I not getting the value of txtUserName.Text instead of / I have verified that the SQL being exectuted when ``` HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name ``` is being accessed is returning the expected values via the following SQL: ``` SELECT [Limit1].[C1] AS [C1], [Limit1].[UserName] AS [UserName], [Limit1].[UserId] AS [UserId], [Limit1].[Email] AS [Email], [Limit1].[PasswordQuestion] AS [Password…

Accepted Answer

Well it is always the simple solution isn't it?

As it turns out I had not placed my ASPX code for my login page within an aspx:login. This meant that the cookie was not getting set correctly as all I was doing was Membership.RedirectFromLogin().

So once I put things into an aspx:login all was well. Hope this helps someone else in the future.

Reverted to Membership from Identity and getting strange result for logged in user name

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