Hi Chester,

Sorry no one replied.  Hope this does not put you of the forum :)

You can take a look at: http://www.charlesafford.com/umbraco-membership-provider.aspx

That should give you the basic idea.  Basically you want to use the .net membership API.

Are you trying to get the member (logged in to the umbraco backend) or the member (user logged into the website)?

If your answer you should use the MemberService()

MemberService memberservice = new MemberService()

Charlie :) 

using Umbraco.Core.Services;

using Umbraco.Core.Persistence;

var userService = new UserService(new RepositoryFactory());

This will give access to the user service - I use IOC to pass in a userService but you can work that part out yourself.

Once you have this userService look at the methods you can call - I don't see on for the current logged in member.

Personal I grab the user by email - DL the source code form git and have a look through the services and see if another class has a method that matches your needs.

@Charles Afford ... I'm asking about the current User, not the current Member hence my using Umbraco's new UserService. But you're correct, I need to get the current User from the .Net membership provider and then use the UserService to get the ID. Here's what I ended up doing (wrapped in a helper method):

    private int GetCurrentUserId()
    {
        var userService = ApplicationContext.Current.Services.UserService;
        return userService.GetByUsername(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name).Id;
    }

@Dan Mothersole ... I know how to get the UserService instance and I have already looked through the available methods, hence my question as to how to do what I'm wanting to do. Also, I have downloaded the source and picked through it as well. Some interesting things in there, but didn't find the answer to what I was looking for.

How about the following within the Umbraco.Web namespace?

UmbracoContext.Current.Security.CurrentUser

Sorry Chester never got a notifcation you posted

You can do this..

var current = UmbracoContext.Current;

var user = current.UmbracoUser;

I thnk that in Umbraco 7.2.4 there is a problem.

I used Umbraco.Web.UmbracoContext.Current.Security.CurrentUser to obtain current backoffice user. It was works in older Umbraco versions.
But it does not works in "Umbraco 7.2.4".

How can I solve it?

Thanks

I want to know if the back office user is logged in on a front end template, I'm using umbraco 7.2.8

None of the above work for me, so I've reverted to:

 if (umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetCurrent() != null)
 {
     // do admin type stuff here.
 }

See why here: http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/U4-6496

I am running 7.4.3 and I can use to get the current user in a class inheriting from UmbracoAuthorizedJsonController.

var currentUser = Umbraco.UmbracoContext.Security.CurrentUser;

I'm using Umraco 7.4.3 as well and discovered that the current user is null right after login in backoffice.

// user1 is null
var user1 = UmbracoContext.Current.Security.CurrentUser;
// user2 is also null
var user2 = UmbracoContext.Current.UmbracoUser;

However, the user is null only when using UmbracoContext.Current. When using umbraco.BusinessLogic then the user is not null.

// user3 is not null
var user3 = umbraco.BusinessLogic.User.GetCurrent();
// user4 is not null
var user4 = umbraco.helper.GetCurrentUmbracoUser();

After a while (30 seconds or 1 minute maybe), I try to read user1 and user2 again and they are not null anymore!

Is there a caching issue regarding the authenticated user?

Umbraco.UmbracoContext.Security.CurrentUser;

this works for me.

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