获取 Windows 用户显示名称

Question

How do I get the display name of the user that is logged in? Not the username , but the display name , such as is shown in the screenshot below - and as seen on the start menu in any Windows Vista/7 computer.

I tried a bunch of different suggestions from other questions, but they all show the username , not the display name . You can see the results of these attempts in the above screenshot.

Imports System.Security.Principal
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.IO
Imports System

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        MsgBox("1: " & System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name.ToString & vbCrLf & _
               "2: " & Environment.UserDomainName & vbCrLf & _
               "3: " & WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name & vbCrLf & _
                "4: " & Thread.CurrentPrincipal.Identity.Name & vbCrLf & _
               "5: " & Environment.UserName & vbCrLf & _
               "6: " & My.User.Name & vbCrLf &
                "7: " & My.Computer.Name)

    End Sub

End Class

Answer 1

You should use UserPrincipal.DisplayName :

System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal.Current.DisplayName

To do so, you'll need to and add a reference to System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dll from your project.

Answer 2

Try this

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sfs49sw0(v=vs.110).aspx

using System.IO;
using System;
using System.Security.Principal;
class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name);
    }
}

Answer 3

This is contained within the System.DirectoryServices namespace so you need to add this in the using section.

Then you can use System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal.Current.DisplayName which returns the Display Name . This is typically shown in the Start Menu.