HOW TO REQUEST FROM VB WINDOWS USER NAME? 1

[IrinaK]

Is it possible to find out from VB application the user name, who was logged in into the Windows NT system?

Thank you very much.

 

[SiriusBlackOp]

For VB.NET 2005:

My.User.Name


btw - It's not very polite to post in all Uppercase as in your title. ;o)

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[earthandfire]

Actually, SiriusBlackOp, I would disagree with you.

The User's Name, is available from:

[tt]Environment.UserName[/tt] (both 2003 and 2005)

My.User.Name (2005 only) returns the same as

[tt]Environment.UserDomainName + "\" + Environment.UserName[/tt] (2003 and 2005).

My.??? doesn't appear to provide access to just the User's Name, only providing DomainName\UserName


Hope this helps.

 

[earthandfire]

In fact I was wrong, My.??? does provide this information (sort of ...)

The following uses the computer's environment variables (2005 only):

[tt]
MessageBox.Show(My.Application.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERNAME"))
MessageBox.Show(My.Application.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERDOMAIN"))
MessageBox.Show(My.Application.GetEnvironmentVariable("COMPUTERNAME"))
MessageBox.Show(My.Application.GetEnvironmentVariable("LOGONSERVER"))
[/tt]

for 2003, replace [tt]My.Application[/tt] with [tt]Environment[/tt], for example [tt]Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERNAME")[/tt]


Hope this helps.

 

[earthandfire]

As an aside, if you need to know what environment variables are available and what information they contain, open a CommandPrompt window and enter SET.


Hope this helps.

 

[IrinaK]

Thank you for your help.
But unfortunately it doesn't work for me.
When I am trying this:
My.Application.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERNAME") - I get errorr message: that I need and object.

When I tried this:
GetEnvironmentVariable("USERNAME") - I get errorr message: sub or function not defined.

 

[earthandfire]

What version of VB.NET are you using?

Version 2003:

[tt]Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERNAME")[/tt]


=======================================================

Version 2005:

[tt]My.Application.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERNAME")[/tt]


Hope this helps.

 

[earthandfire]

Sorry, I clicked Submit too soon - I meant to add that the 2003 version that I posted above works in both 2003 and 2005.


Hope this helps.

 

[IrinaK]

Thank you very much earthandfire.
It didn't work for me, but thanks to you I found in VB function "Environ", which give me user name, user domain and computer name.

Thanks again.

 

[earthandfire]

Interesting. I didn't know that the Environ function had been retained in VB.NET, I thought it was just in VB5/6 etc and VBA.

I'm not sure why you couldn't get either:

Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERNAME")

or:

Environment.UserName

to work, as they should work with VB.NET versions 2003 and 2005 - but at least you've got a working solution.