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In an aspx page I get the Windows username with the function Request.LogonUserIdentity.Name. This function returns a string in the format "domain\user".
Is there some function to only get the username, without resorting to the IndexOf and Substring, like this?
public static string StripDomain(string username)
{
int pos = username.IndexOf('\\');
return pos != -1 ? username.Substring(pos + 1) : username;
}
I don't believe so. I have got the username using these methods before-
var user = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User;
var name = user.Identity.Name;
var slashIndex = name.IndexOf("\\");
return slashIndex > -1
? name.Substring(slashIndex + 1)
: name.Substring(0, name.IndexOf("@"));
or
var name = Request.LogonUserIdentity.Name;
var slashIndex = name.IndexOf("\\");
return slashIndex > -1
? name.Substring(slashIndex + 1)
: name.Substring(0, name.IndexOf("@"));
If you are using .NET 3.5 you could always create an extension method to the WindowsIdentity class that does this work for you.
public static string NameWithoutDomain( this WindowsIdentity identity )
{
string[] parts = identity.Name.Split(new char[] { '\\' });
//highly recommend checking parts array for validity here
//prior to dereferencing
return parts[1];
}
that way all you have to do anywhere in your code is reference:
Request.LogonUserIdentity.NameWithoutDomain();
static class IdentityHelpers
{
public static string ShortName(this WindowsIdentity Identity)
{
if (null != Identity)
{
return Identity.Name.Split(new char[] {'\\'})[1];
}
return string.Empty;
}
}
If you include this code, you could then just do something like:
WindowsIdentity a = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent();
Console.WriteLine(a.ShortName);
Obviously in a web environment, you wouldn't write to the console - just an example...
An alternative way of doing the same thing as the other answers:
var usernameWithoutDomain = Path.GetFileName(@"somedomain\someusername")
It is just unsafe as not checking for the @ variant of usernames.
I was suggesting to use regexpes but they would be overkill. [System.String.Split](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b873y76a(VS.80).aspx) do the job.
string[] parts= username.Split( new char[] {'\\'} );
return parts[1];