I am trying to modify the Dot Net Nuke Menu.  I have added a conditional to the ist building section of the menu.  The goal is to make sure that even if a user is an Admin User, they can only see the Admin tabs if they are user_ID 1 or 2.  The problem is that I need to load objUserInfo.UserID with information about the current user.  How can I extract the username of the current user as a string?  Is this a secure thing to do?  I would appriciate hearing better ideas if anyone has one.

Dim objUsers As New Entities.Users.UserController
Dim objUserInfo As Entities.Users.UserInfo

objUserInfo = objUsers.GetUserByUsername(MyPortalSettings.PortalId, <Username As String> )

<...some more code ....>

' Build list of tabs to be shown to user
    For i = 0 To MyPortalSettings.DesktopTabs.Count - 1

      Dim tab As TabInfo = CType(MyPortalSettings.DesktopTabs(i), TabInfo)
      If tab.IsVisible = True And tab.IsDeleted = False Then
                If DotNetNuke.Security.PortalSecurity.IsInRoles(tab.AuthorizedRoles) = True Then
                    If (tab.IsAdminTab = True And (objUserInfo.UserID = 1 Or objUserInfo.UserID = 2)) Or tab.IsAdminTab = False Then
                        authorizedTabs.Add(tab)
                        addedTabs += 1
                    End If
                End If
            End If

        Next i

I'm trying to convert an existing asp1.1/dnn2.0 to asp2.0/dnn4.x...  it's some code that when logged in a user can become another user (ie home office associate can log in as a customer and see the site the way the customer would see it).

I'm lost. Here's my error

System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'Lynne' to data type int. at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.HasMoreRows() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.ReadInternal(Boolean setTimeout) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.Read() at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.CompleteExecuteScalar(SqlDataReader ds, Boolean returnSqlValue) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand.ExecuteScalar() at DotNetNuke.BecomeaUser.IDCheck() at DotNetNuke.BecomeaUser.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)

I tried implementing you GetCurrentUserInfo()

Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load' Obtain PortalSettings from Current Context

Try

I'm not having much luck searching so I'm asking in this thread.  PLEASE... even a search suggestion would help.

That would assume he was building a MODULE

- but since he says he is modifying the DNN MENU I kinda assumed he is working on a SKIN  - in which case you would not be extending PortalModuleBase.

Westa