How to get the current logged in Windows User from MSBuild

Question

How can we get the current logged-in windows user from Msbuild? Is there a similar way to get it, just as we can do with Nant with the environment::get-user-name() function?

Answer 1

You can use $(USERNAME) to read the USERNAME environmental variable.

Answer 2

Your best bet is probably to use the environment variables

%UserName%
%UserDomain%

Just open a command window and type set to see what's defined. In MSBuild, these would be defined as $(USERNAME) and $(USERDOMAIN) - see MSDN, How To Use an Environment Variables in a Build

Answer 3

Try out this

<Message Text="$(USERNAME)"/>