When you login to TFS using object model, sometimes it may be useful to get information about logged in user (such as domain, account, email etc.).
In TFS 2008 object model, one would get the logged in user display name, domain name, account name and email as following:
1 TeamFoundationServer server = new TeamFoundationServer("tfsserver",
2 new System.Net.NetworkCredential("domain_name\\user_name", "pwd"));
3 server.EnsureAuthenticated();
4
5 Console.Write(server.AuthenticatedUserDisplayName);
6 // returns user's display name
7
8 Console.Write(server.AuthenticatedUserName);
9 // returns domain_name\user_name
10
11 // AuthenticatedUserIdentity is Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Identity
12 Console.Write(server.AuthenticatedUserIdentity.Domain + "\\" +
13 server.AuthenticatedUserIdentity.AccountName);
14 // returns domain_name\user_name
15
16 Console.Write(server.AuthenticatedUserIdentity.MailAddress);
17 // returns user’s email
In TFS 2010 OM, AuthenticatedUserDisplayName, AuthenticatedUserName and AuthenticatedUserIdentity properties are all deprecated, and instead AuthorizedIdentity property is introduced on Team Project Collection class. The code below makes use of the new property to retrieve logged in user information:
1 TfsTeamProjectCollection collection = new TfsTeamProjectCollection(
2 new Uri(http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/defaultcollection,
3 new System.Net.NetworkCredential("domain_name\\user_name", "pwd"));
4 collection.EnsureAuthenticated();
5
6 // AuthorizedIdentity is Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client.TeamFoundationIdentity
7 Console.Write(collection.AuthorizedIdentity.DisplayName);
8 // returns user's display name
9
10 Console.Write(collection.AuthorizedIdentity.GetAttribute("Domain", "default"));
11 // returns domain_name
12
13 Console.Write(collection.AuthorizedIdentity.GetAttribute("Account", "default"));
14 // returns user_name
15
16 Console.Write(collection.AuthorizedIdentity.GetAttribute("Mail", "default"));
17 // returns user’s email
Mirror from my MSDN blog
