C# - How To Store Additional User Data Using MembershipProvider/FormsAuthenticationTicket
Aug 2, 2010
I have implemented my own custom MembershipProvider with a custom data store. No problems so far. I would like for people to login using their email instead of a username. Because I have my own data store, this is not a major issue, I can just pass the email as the username for the MembershipProvider.
My question is, how do I store additional custom user data along in the FormsAuthenticationTicket? I want to store a couple of things that will never change, such as their UserId, First/Last Name and Country. I started looking into creating FormsAuthenticationTicket with the UserData, but quickly got confused. How do I store multiple things into this UserData, and how do I easily read this data back on every single ASP.NET MVC2 page. I found many samples, none that really seemed that great in terms of MVC2. There has to be a simple way to do this.
It would make no sense to read the UserId, First/Last Name and the Country from a database on each and every request because it would never change. Plus, while I want the user to login using their email, I'd want to store their UserId in the auth cookie so that it can be used in nearly every user related database query rather than the email (because in all the tables, the user data is stored along with the UserId - not the email because technically the email could be changed - I already figured that stuff out when it comes to the MembershipProvider).
What is the best practices for storing additional user data like this in ASP.NET MVC2?
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