Accessing User Data (Visual Basic)

This section contains topics dealing with the My.User object and tasks that you can accomplish with it.

The My.User object provides access to information about the logged-on user by returning an object that implements the IPrincipal interface.

Tasks

To See
Get the user's login name Name
Get the user's domain name, if the application uses Windows authentication CurrentPrincipal
Determine the user's role IsInRole

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