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  3. November 2007

Re: Getting the Windows current user

I'm not a C# programmer, but in plain C on Windows, I'd call the GetUserName() API. I find it hard to believe that C# would require horsing around with creating batch files and returning environment variables just to get the user name! It can't really be that difficult, can it?

Anyway, here's a link to the API I'd use from C:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724432.aspx


Mark Villa wrote:
Imagine that you can not use Microsoft products - or rather you want
to do this as generic as possible. A call to "C" then possibly going
to 'Netapi32.dll' is required.

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