WindowsIdentity.Groups Property

Note: This property is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

Gets the groups the current Windows user belongs to.

Namespace: System.Security.Principal
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

public:
property IdentityReferenceCollection^ Groups {
	IdentityReferenceCollection^ get ();
}
/** @property */
public IdentityReferenceCollection get_Groups ()

public function get Groups () : IdentityReferenceCollection

Property Value

An IdentityReferenceCollection object representing the groups the current Windows user belongs to.

The following code example shows the use of the Groups property to display the identity references for the groups the current user belongs to. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the WindowsIdentity class.

String^ authenticationType = "WindowsAuthentication";
WindowsIdentity^ windowsIdentity = gcnew WindowsIdentity( logonToken,authenticationType );


String authenticationType = "WindowsAuthentication";
WindowsIdentity windowsIdentity =
    new WindowsIdentity(logonToken, authenticationType);

Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 2.0

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