GenericIdentity Class
Represents a generic user.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
System.Security.Claims.ClaimsIdentity
System.Security.Principal.GenericIdentity
System.Net.HttpListenerBasicIdentity
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | GenericIdentity(GenericIdentity) | Initializes a new instance of the GenericIdentity class by using the specified GenericIdentity object. |
![]() | GenericIdentity(String) | Initializes a new instance of the GenericIdentity class representing the user with the specified name. |
![]() | GenericIdentity(String, String) | Initializes a new instance of the GenericIdentity class representing the user with the specified name and authentication type. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | Actor | Gets or sets the identity of the calling party that was granted delegation rights.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | AuthenticationType | Gets the type of authentication used to identify the user.(Overrides ClaimsIdentity.AuthenticationType.) |
![]() | BootstrapContext | Gets or sets the token that was used to create this claims identity.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | Claims | Gets all claims for the user represented by this generic identity.(Overrides ClaimsIdentity.Claims.) |
![]() | CustomSerializationData | (Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | IsAuthenticated | Gets a value indicating whether the user has been authenticated.(Overrides ClaimsIdentity.IsAuthenticated.) |
![]() | Label | Gets or sets the label for this claims identity.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | Name | Gets the user's name.(Overrides ClaimsIdentity.Name.) |
![]() | NameClaimType | Gets the claim type that is used to determine which claims provide the value for the Name property of this claims identity.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | RoleClaimType | Gets the claim type that will be interpreted as a .NET Framework role among the claims in this claims identity.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | AddClaim(Claim) | Adds a single claim to this claims identity.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | AddClaims(IEnumerable<Claim>) | Adds a list of claims to this claims identity.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | Clone() | Creates a new object that is a copy of the current instance.(Overrides ClaimsIdentity.Clone().) |
![]() | CreateClaim(BinaryReader) | (Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Finalize() | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | FindAll(Predicate<Claim>) | Retrieves all of the claims that are matched by the specified predicate.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | FindAll(String) | Retrieves all of the claims that have the specified claim type.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | FindFirst(Predicate<Claim>) | Retrieves the first claim that is matched by the specified predicate.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | FindFirst(String) | Retrieves the first claim with the specified claim type.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | GetHashCode() | Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetObjectData(SerializationInfo, StreamingContext) | Populates the SerializationInfo with data needed to serialize the current ClaimsIdentity object.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | GetType() | |
![]() | HasClaim(Predicate<Claim>) | Determines whether this claims identity has a claim that is matched by the specified predicate.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | HasClaim(String, String) | Determines whether this claims identity has a claim with the specified claim type and value.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | MemberwiseClone() | |
![]() | RemoveClaim(Claim) | Attempts to remove a claim from the claims identity.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | ToString() | Returns a string that represents the current object.(Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | TryRemoveClaim(Claim) | Attempts to remove a claim from the claims identity.(Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | WriteTo(BinaryWriter) | (Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
![]() | WriteTo(BinaryWriter, Byte[]) | (Inherited from ClaimsIdentity.) |
An identity object represents the user on whose behalf the code is running.
The following example shows the use of members of the GenericIdentity class.
using System; using System.Security.Principal; class GenericIdentityMembers { [STAThread] static void Main(string[] args) { // Create a GenericIdentity object with no authentication type // specified. GenericIdentity defaultIdentity = new GenericIdentity("DefaultUser"); // Retrieve a GenericIdentity created from current WindowsIdentity // values. GenericIdentity currentIdentity = GetGenericIdentity(); ShowIdentityPreferences(new GenericIdentity("")); ShowIdentityPreferences(defaultIdentity); ShowIdentityPreferences(currentIdentity); Console.WriteLine("The sample completed successfully; " + "press Enter to continue."); Console.ReadLine(); } // Print identity preferences to the console window. private static void ShowIdentityPreferences( GenericIdentity genericIdentity) { // Retrieve the name of the generic identity object. string identityName = genericIdentity.Name; // Retrieve the authentication type of the generic identity object. string identityAuthenticationType = genericIdentity.AuthenticationType; Console.WriteLine("Name: " + identityName); Console.WriteLine("Type: " + identityAuthenticationType); // Verify that the user's identity has been authenticated // (was created with a valid name). if (genericIdentity.IsAuthenticated) { Console.WriteLine("The user's identity has been authenticated."); } else { Console.WriteLine("The user's identity has not been " + "authenticated."); } Console.WriteLine("~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"); } // Create generic identity based on values from the current // WindowsIdentity. private static GenericIdentity GetGenericIdentity() { // Get values from the current WindowsIdentity. WindowsIdentity windowsIdentity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); // Construct a GenericIdentity object based on the current Windows // identity name and authentication type. string authenticationType = windowsIdentity.AuthenticationType; string userName = windowsIdentity.Name; GenericIdentity authenticatedGenericIdentity = new GenericIdentity(userName, authenticationType); return authenticatedGenericIdentity; } }
Available since 10
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Any public static ( Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.



