HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name is Empty

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I have a Silverlight application (using MVC) and when i'm building in visual studio, using Visual Studio Development center, there's no problem, the HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name has a Value

But when i'm using the same project with IIS 7.5 (i'm using Windows 7), HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name stays empty

Anyone who can help? Or knows where i can find the settings from the visual studio Development center, so i can check what's wrong in IIS?

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11 Answers

Disabling all other options in authentication tab of iis except windows authentication resolved my issue. Please check..

Steps:

  1. Open iis in your machine
  2. Select your application from the application pool
  3. Click on authentication option
  4. Disable all other option except windows authentication (Anonimous authentication should be disabled)

Please check this and let me know the feedback. It worked for me. hope it will work for you also.. enter image description here

user_19997700

Apart from all obvious reasons mentioned earlier, there might be another one: you didn't put an Authorize attribute on top of your controller, like that:

[Authorize(Roles = "myRole")]
[EnableCors(origins: "http://localhost:8080", headers: "*", methods: "*", SupportsCredentials = true)]
public class MyController : ApiController

At least that's what worked for me.

user_41229730

Try enabling basic authentication and disabling the other authentications in IIS, then try launching the application. The application will ask for windows credentials. Enter the same and the app should be able to get the name under HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.

user_15319120

I was facing this issue when authentication mode was not set while creating the project. So It worked when created a new project with authentication set to windows mode in the initial settings.

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