WindowsIdentity in C#

Hello Everyone,

I have a question regarding windows Identity.

I am using the following code to get the user name of the user which is currently logged in the system

Code:

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 string pcLoggedInUserName, loggedInuserWithoutDomain = string.Empty;
 int indexOfFirstSlash;
 pcLoggedInUserName = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name;
 indexOfFirstSlash = pcLoggedInUserName.IndexOf('\\');
 loggedInuserWithoutDomain = pcLoggedInUserName.Substring(indexOfFirstSlash + 1);
 return loggedInuserWithoutDomain;

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As you can see I need to get the user name only without the domain name. Right now the WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name returns DOMAIN\\username and I need to get the user name only. I have managed to accomplish that by getting the substring.

My question is this: Does the GetCurrent() function always return the username in the DOMAIN\\username format ( since my logic depends on that) or is it system speciffic?

Thanks in advance

Susan

To get the username you could simply use System.Environment.UserName.

Thanks so much for the fast reply. It has been very helpful.
I implemented the suggestion and my solution looks much cleaner.

Regards,

Susan

As far as I know, domain name is part of windows identity, so it is allways listed together with the plain user name.