Checking if app is running under a Admin account in XP

[Brad Wick]

The application I am writing, the user has to right click on the file and tell the file to Run As and login with a admin account. Is there a way to tell if the user that is logged in running the program is a admin or not? This is in XP not vista.

[Luc Pattyn]

Hi, this is a snippet I once used, it shows "User" or "User, Administrator" IIRC:

List roles=new List();
try {
	//  on LP9300 this code produces an exception "Unable to get role for this RID"
	Thread.GetDomain().SetPrincipalPolicy(PrincipalPolicy.WindowsPrincipal);
	WindowsPrincipal wp=new WindowsPrincipal(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent());
	foreach(object roleName in Enum.GetValues(typeof(WindowsBuiltInRole)))
		if (wp.IsInRole((WindowsBuiltInRole)roleName)) roles.Add(roleName.ToString());
} catch (Exception exc) {
	log(exc);
}
log("Windows role = "+string.Join(", ", roles.ToArray()));

:)

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