Is it possible to obtain ASP.NET membership user name after FormsAuth.SignIn ?

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Published on 2009-11-15T04:39:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/26 18:43 UTC
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I have some code that is accessing Membership.GetUser() to get the current logged in user.

This works fine until I try to access it immediately after logging in with FormsAuth.SignIn(userName, false);

However I noticed that neither Membership.GetUser() nor User.Identity.Name is updated with the newly logged in user until a new request (I assume its reading directly from the Request cookies).

This however kind of screws up my logic that accesses Membership.GetUser() becasue it introduces a special case.

Question: is there a way to read the current logged in user with ASP.NET membership immediately after logging in. Or will I have to introduce my own abstraction layer to allow me to 'set' a user as being logged in ? (This is in an AJAX request - so i'd rather not do a redirect).

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