Tuesday, May 15, 2007

 

One of the new assemblies in .NET Framework 3.5 is System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dll (you have to browse on the file system to your Framework 3.5 installation in order to add a reference in VS "Orcas"). It is an extensible managed wrapper with intuitive search that aims to simplify programming with both ADAM and AD – it is based on SDS/ADSI under the hood. I deduced that from a powerpoint deck that you can find in a zip file if you scroll to the bottom of Joe's blog post there (look at slides 18-22, includes code snippets).

I started looking at it and like I always do with new namespaces I drew a class diagram to help me understand it. It turned out to be fairly large so only if you are really interested, have a look here. Better still, for a small piece of sample code, go to Bart's blog post.

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