Page 760 of Special Edition Professional ASP.NET 2.0: for me the LoginName returns <domain>/<UserName>. Is there a way to get rid of the <domain> and just return the UserName?

Well, this is all I can come up with on a page load:

Dim username As String
username = Request.LogonUserIdentity.Name.Remove(0, 9)
   'where the domain + the "\" are nine characters

LoginName1.FormatString = username

I don't know enough about strings to be able to remove the "\" and all the characters before it to make the code universal. BTW..the LoginName is used with Windows authentication.

Hi Steve,

You can use Split to get the part after the \ like this:

userName = Request.LogonUserIdentity.Name.Split("\")(1)

Split creates an array based on the \ and then returns the second element that contains the user's name.

Cheers,

Imar

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Imar Spaanjaars
http://Imar.Spaanjaars.Com
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Author of ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Beginning Dreamweaver MX / MX 2004

Thanks Imar!
Works like a charm. I spent some time reading up on strings and saw the split, but had no idea how to implement it. Thanks again, Steve