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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.
  1. ClaimsPrincipal.Current.Identities.First().Claims.ToList(); 
If you want to get specific claim from claim list then the following code snippet will be used.
  1. //First get user claims    
  2. var claims = ClaimsPrincipal.Current.Identities.First().Claims.ToList();    
  3.     
  4. //Filter specific claim    
  5. claims?.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Type.Equals("UserName", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))?.Value   
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