How To Get Current User Claims In ASP.NET Identity

In this blog, you will learn how to Get Current User Claims In ASP.NET Identity.

We need to use the "System.Security.Claims" namespace to retrieve/get user claims in ASP.NET. Here is a code snippet to get user claims.

ClaimsPrincipal.Current.Identities.First().Claims.ToList();

If you want to get specific claim from claim list then the following code snippet will be used.

//First get user claims
var claims = ClaimsPrincipal.Current.Identities.First().Claims.ToList();

//Filter specific claim
claims?.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Type.Equals("UserName", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))?.Value

Detailed tutorials

• Introduction To ASP.NET Identity
• Create Identity In Simple Ways Using ASP.NET MVC 5