How Do I Detect If the Current User is Logged In?

This snippets demonstrates how to check whether a user is logged in or not. The code also shows how you can extract the UserData from the Ticket that is retrieved from the User Identity.
if (HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name != null)
{
  if(HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name.Length != 0)
  {
    FormsIdentity id = (FormsIdentity) User.Identity;
    FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = id.Ticket;
    string MyUserData = ticket.UserData;
  }
}

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Written by Imar Spaanjaars
Date Posted 09/28/2003 21:42
Date Last Reviewed 12/08/2006 14:50
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