How do you do Impersonation in .NET?

Question

Is there a simple out of the box way to impersonate a user in .NET?

So far I\'ve been using this class from code project for all my impersonation requirements.

Answer 1

Here is some good overview of .NET impersonation concepts.

• Michiel van Otegem: WindowsImpersonationContext made easy
• WindowsIdentity.Impersonate Method (check out the code samples)

Basically you will be leveraging these classes that are out of the box in the .NET framework:

• WindowsImpersonationContext
• WindowsIdentity

The code can often get lengthy though and that is why you see many examples like the one you reference that try to simplify the process.