accessing-user-data.md

title	Accessing User Data (Visual Basic)
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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 xref:System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal interface.

Tasks

To	See
Get the user's login name	xref:Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.User.Name%2A
Get the user's domain name, if the application uses Windows authentication	xref:Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.User.CurrentPrincipal
Determine the user's role	xref:Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.User.IsInRole%2A

See Also

xref:Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.User