Login Username stored

[mufasa]

Hi There

I have a login with username and password that authenticate and authorize the users.

Where is the best place to store the username for use anywhere in the win forms application?

Thx
Mufasa

 

[jmcilhinney]

One option would be to create a singleton class to represent the logged on user. You can then access the one and only instance of that class anywhere in the app. Here's a simple example of such a class that could be used in this case:

internal class CurrentUser
{
    private static CurrentUser _instance;

    public static CurrentUser Instance
    {
        get
        {
            if (_instance == null)
            {
                _instance = new CurrentUser();
            }

            return _instance;
        }
    }

    public string UserName { get; set; }

    private CurrentUser()
    {

    }
}

You can use:

CurrentUser.Instance.UserName

to get and set the user name of the current user anywhere in your code.