.NET Tip: Must initialize My.User before use in console based applications

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If you make use of the My.User object in a WinForms application, you can just dive right into it and start using it right away, however, if you add this to a new console app it returns a blank response for My.User.Name:

Console.WriteLine("User: {0}", My.User.Name)
Console.ReadLine()

And you'll see this when you run it:

To get around this problem, all it takes is an initialization that gets called automagically in WinForms:

My.User.InitializeWithWindowsUser()

Put that before you use the object for the first time and you'll be good to go!