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Diin
Diin

Reputation: 585

MVC Identity User in razor view

I have linked my members table with Application user by foreign key as can be found in the Model

    public int MemberId { get; set; }
    public int? UserId { get; set; }
    [ForeignKey("UserId")]
    public ApplicationUser User { get; set; }

In Razor View I want to be able to retrieve User details eg

@Model.User.FirstName

But I get

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Not sure what is missing

Upvotes: 0

Views: 705

Answers (1)

nbokmans
nbokmans

Reputation: 5748

You must make your UserId->User relation virtual. So:

public int? UserId { get; set; }
[ForeignKey("UserId")]
public virtual ApplicationUser User { get; set; }

Adding the virtual keyword to the declaration of User means it will be "Lazy Loaded" which in really short terms means that as soon as you refer to the User object, it loads the data from the database.

For more information, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574232(v=vs.113).aspx#Anchor_1

Upvotes: 2

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