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Oxymoron
Oxymoron

Reputation: 1452

Retrieving information of validated user in WCF

I was following this tutorial at http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/380900/WCF-Authentication-and-Authorization-in-Enterprise

Now I have it logging in and everything, no problems infact it works just like it should. I've even added some cryptography to it using MD5 hashing. But I'm not sure how to get the users information. So when they call the Utility service, how would I query the database for that specific user?

    [PrincipalPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, Role = "Read")]
    public Data.UserProfiles ViewProfile()
    {
        using (var context = new DatabaseEntities())
        {
           var user = context.UserProfiles.SingleOrDefault(u => u.UserName == ???)
           return user;
        }
    }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 133

Answers (1)

Milan Raval
Milan Raval

Reputation: 1890

If you are using the WCF in web application you can store the user details in cookie as the CodeProject article does or you can follow WCF Authentication as here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff405740.aspx

Use below code to get user: var currentUser = new WindowsPrincipal((WindowsIdentity) System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity);

Upvotes: 1

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