Get current Windows user name within Silverlight

Question

Is it possible to get the currently logged in user\'s username with Silverlight? You can assume that user has Windows OS and the Silverlight application is hosted in Interne

Answer 1

The highly voted answers to this question did not help me.

Using an ASP.NET web service, this worked however:

string userName =
   System.ServiceModel.ServiceSecurityContext.Current.WindowsIdentity.Name;

And this blog entry is the one that set me on the correct path:

http://rouslan.com/2009/03/12/20-steps-to-get-together-windows-authentication-silverlight-and-wcf-service/

ServiceReferences.ClientConfig needs this:

And web.config needs this:

Those are the only noteworthy changes I needed to make to an otherwise working Silverlight application that previously used anonymous access for web services in IIS.