Retrieving the current user in SharePoint 2010 object model

September 1, 2011 Samuel SharePoint 2010, 0

This is a really simple code snippet to obtain the current user using the SharePoint object model.

using (SPWeb spweb = SPContext.Current.Web) {
SPUser oUser = spweb.CurrentUser;
string Username = oUser.LoginName;
}

SPUser represents a user in SharePoint services. A new object (oUser) is created from the spweb property, currentUser. We can now access various other properties like LoginName, Name etc.

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