Directory Programming .NET

Hi,

I have a c## application that queries the AD and loads objectGuid as one of the properties. I would like to populate the data returned from active directory in a table [oracle database] with object guid as a key.

Couple of things I would like to know:

- what is the best datatype going to be of this field (storing objectGuid) value in oracle table?

- how do I retrieve the string value from objectguid?

As of now I am using following code to display samaccountname would like something in similar lines:

var mySearcher = new DirectorySearcher(directoryEntry)

mySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("samAccountName");

mySearcher.PropertiesToLoad.Add("objectGUID");

var resultCollection = mySearcher.FindAll();

foreach (System.DirectoryServices.SearchResult resEnt in resultCollection)

{

   sw1.WriteLine(String.Format("{0}", resEnt.Properties["samaccountname"][0].ToString()));

}

 

Thanks

Kajal

Hi.

I'm currently doing something like that.

We store the objectGUID as a string in the data base, and so far, it's worked fine for us.

To convert the objectGUID to string we could do it like this:

returnValue.UserKey = new Guid((byte[])_result.Properties["objectguid"][0]).ToString();

since the objectGUID must be only one, if I am not mistaken.

Regards

The best method is to cast the objectGUID attribute returned to a byte[] and pass that to the constructor on the Guid struct. Then, call one of its ToString overrides. This is exactly what the sample above shows. :)

There are also samples from ch 3 of the book in the downloads section.

Thanks so much Casiel & Joe. I was looking for something like this only.