How to Get the ID of the logged in user in asp.net mvc web api apicontroller

After much googling, and evening Bing-ing revealed nothing I discovered that for some reason I had the line

config.SuppressDefaultHostAuthentication();

In my WebAPIConfig.cs file – I removed that and everything magically worked and I could use User.Identity.GetUserId();

 

Written By Steve French

 

This entry was posted on Monday, February 28th, 2022 at 10:13 pmand is filed under ASP.net MVC, Web Api . You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

 

 

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