Convert User to ApplicationUser in ASP.Net MVC

In the last post I talked about How to get current user in ASP.Net MVC 5 . Type of the current user is IPrincipal which is shown as follows:

You may come across requirement to work with ApplicationUser which is created as follows:

You can covert returned User to ApplicationUser as follows:

ApplicationDbContext db = new ApplicationDbContext();
            ApplicationUser appUser = db.Users.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Id == userId);
            return appUser ;

To convert create instance of the ApplicationDBContext and then fetch user using LINQ to Entity. Returned user from context is of type ApplicationUser.

Hope it helps. Happy coding.