Retrieving User Active Directory Object using C# or VB .NET

The method retrieves an LDAPUser object, which is the object that represents the Active Directory object. The object contains methods and properties related to an Active Directory user.

Langauges Supported

ASP.NET, C#, VB.Net, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Sutdio 2008

Method: GetUser

Parameters:  UserProperty (Username or Email) , (string) Property Value

The UserProperty method indicates how the wrapper should search for the user. The options here are Username or Email.

Precondition

An instance of the LDAPmanager must be instantiated for a valid ADDS server, and the instance must be logged on.

Functionality

The method is called passing the Username or the email address as a string. Three things can then occur:

1. If the user detail exist and the method returns a LDAPUser object
2. If the username does not exist the method returns false
3. An Exception will be thrown for other errors

Example

Where LdapConnection is an instance of LdapManager

public LdapUser GetUser(String Username)
        {
            try
            {
                
                return LdapConnection.GetUser(UserProperty.Username, Username);
                
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                throw;
            }
        }

Post Condition

The returned LDAPUser object is updatable