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