I'm creating a web application using Visual Web Developer Express and have run into a few (seemingly basic) problems. The application takes advantage of some of the built-in Login controls to track any users that log onto the site. This is working fine, and I have it set up to where a user's username is displayed in the sidebar when he/she is logged in.

My one question, what I've been struggling with for some time, is just how to access this username with my own code in a separate file (such as a Page_load function on the master page) once someone has logged in. I know it must be stored as some kind of session data, but I've no idea where. I need to take this username, which is actually more of an id, and run some custom DB queries...


So, to sum up, simple question -> Where the hell do these login controls store the data?
Thanks!

Cookies or Session data most likely, look in the code for things like

session("userid") =

response.cookies("userid") =

the name of the cookie or session value might not be exactly that but you should get close.

This is from memory and it's late, but I think what you're looking for can be accessed through your code from the System.Web.HttpContext object. Or something very much like that.