Question

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; } 

Answer 1

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('@'));