Get current user's email address in .NET

Question

I would like to know the email address of the user (assuming she\'s in a typical Windows office network). This is in a C# application. Perhaps something to the effect of

Answer 1

I didn't want to use the Active Directory option and the other, most selected answer, did not work for me oddly enough.

I searched my code bank and found this which worked fine and with quick response:

using (PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "[domain]",  dc=xx,dc=yyy"))
{
    UserPrincipal cp = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(ctx, Environment.UserName);
    userEmail = cp.EmailAddress;
}