How do you get credentials (NetworkCredential) of currently logged in user?

Question

I\'m writing some code to utilise a 3rd party component, and I need to supply an object which implements ICredentials when I start to use it.

If I write the following...

Answer 1

Have you tried setting the principalpolicy for the appdomain at the start of the application?

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetPrincipalPolicy(PrincipalPolicy.WindowsPrincipal);

Setting this value before accessing the current principal object via the thread makes sure the windows identity is used in this object.

edit - I'm pretty sure this works for DefaultNetworkCredentials. I used it to access a web service with windows authentication from a windows forms app.