You probably know that, in order to retrieve the currently logged in user in ASP.Net, you would use this code snippet:

System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name()

This returns the current user in the DOMAIN\USER format. But sometimes, all you want is the user name itself, without the Domain and slash. Here’s a function you can use to do this:

VB.Net:
Protected Function ClearDomain(ByVal sItem As String) As String
        Dim sLoc As Integer = sItem.IndexOf("\") + 1
        Dim sOutPut As String
        sOutPut = sItem.Substring(sLoc)
        Return sOutPut
End Function

C#:
    protected string ClearDomain(string sItem) {
        int sLoc = (sItem.IndexOf("\\") + 1);
        string sOutPut;
        sOutPut = sItem.Substring(sLoc);
        return sOutPut;
    }

Then, to use this function, you would do something like this:

VB.Net:
Dim usr as string
usr=ClearDomain(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.ToString())

C#:
string usr;
usr = ClearDomain(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.User.ToString());