Visual Basic: Initializing My.User
If you write programs in Visual Basic and use the My
namespace, you know that the User object allows accessing properties of the user who logged into the operating system. However, in Windows Forms the following line returns the username in the form of domain\username and works correctly:
Dim userName As String = My.User.Name
In WPF, the same line returns an empty string. There are two ways of solving this problem. The first way is by initializing My.User
as follows:
My.User.InitializeWithWindowsUser()Dim userName As String = My.User.Name
The second way is by using security and identity objects directly, as in the following code:
Dim userName As String = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name ...
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