WindowsIdentity in C#

[Suzi167]

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

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

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

[Jensecj]

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

[Suzi167]

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

Regards,

Susan

[boudino]

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