Problem usingSystem.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name

[Lakshman Maruri]

We have migrated our application(VB.NET) from .NET 1.1 to 2.0. When accessing the identity of the user, using "System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name", it returns me nothing in .NET 2.0 where as code works fine in 1.1.

If I use "System.Threading.Thread.CurrentPrincipal = New WindowsPrincipal(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent())" and now get the identity, it gives me "My Laptop domain/user name" insted of "my corporate domain/username".

Can somebody help me with this resolved.

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[Tiago Halm]

For a detailed view of Thread.CurrentPrincipal look at:
http://www.pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Keith.GuideBook/WhatIsThreadDotCurrentPrincipal.html

WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(bool) is best the way to get the current identity
(impersonated or not).

Tiago Halm