Difference between user.identity.name and session["username"]

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what is the diffenernce between user.identity.name and session["username"]

Posted 16-Aug-11 11:35am

codegeekalpha

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Identity

You'll only be able to retrieve the identity of the person accessing the web app, if that person is logged in on the server. If the IIS authentication is turned off, then no authentication will be required, and therefore, no identity will be provided to the web app. The web app will have to know who you are, before it can say your name.

Session

you might be knowing that session variable has default scope of 20 minutes by default ,which we set on IIS server,we can change it according to need
so your session variable will be available for just 20 minutes ,so this session variable can be used to hold data for long time,i mean as long as your session is alive as per iss server setting

Posted 16-Aug-11 19:17pm

senthil sennu

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Simon Bang Terkildsen · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-16T11:52:00

Solution 1

User.Identity.Name is the name of the current user
Session["username"] is what you make of it, ASP.NET doesn't use it.

Posted 16-Aug-11 11:52am

Simon Bang Terkildsen

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Aug-11 17:58pm

You could have explained that Session works like an associative container (dictionary), can hold data by any arbitrary key. One can use any other key instead of "username"; only uniqueness of the key and match across pages matters. My 4.
--SA

Simon Bang Terkildsen 16-Aug-11 18:49pm

Very true, I'm new to this "pass on your knowledge"-thing, a side I'm currently trying to improve. So thank you for pointing that out :)