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WindowsIdentity::Name Property

 

Gets the user's Windows logon name.

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

public:
property String^ Name {
	virtual String^ get() override;
}

Property Value

Type: System::String^

The Windows logon name of the user on whose behalf the code is being run.

Implements

IIdentity::Name

The logon name is in the form DOMAIN\USERNAME.

The following code shows the use of the Name property to get the user's Windows logon name. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the WindowsIdentity class.

propertyDescription = String::Concat( propertyDescription, windowsIdentity->Name );

.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
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