using impersonation in code

[smHaig]

I am new to asp.net and am trying to open a word document readonly from the
server. I am not sure how to do that either, but what I tried gave me an
error re: rights. I read the following on impersonation, but got an error
trying it. It is in C# and I translated to vb.net, so perhaps I translated
incorrectly. Could someone show me what to do:

Thanks so much -- below is from the article I mentioned.

To impersonate the authenticating user (User.Identity) only when you run a
particular section of code, you can use the code to follow. This method
requires that the authenticating user identity is of type WindowsIdentity.

System.Security.Principal.WindowsImpersonationCont ext impersonationContext;
impersonationContext =
((System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity)User.I dentity).Impersonate();

//Insert your code that runs under the security context of the
authenticating user here.

impersonationContext.Undo();
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smHaig

[Stefan]

Did you get a compilation error?
Or an exception at runtime? If so, what exception?

Don't forget to disable anonymous auth in IIS and set the auth in your
web.config to Windows.

[smHaig]

The error regards the token that I need to set up and further research
indicatated that to set up an anonoymous account was very complicated.

What do you mean by set the auth in the config?
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smHaig
"Stefan" wrote:

Did you get a compilation error?
Or an exception at runtime? If so, what exception?

Don't forget to disable anonymous auth in IIS and set the auth in your
web.config to Windows.