The .Net Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming

By Joe Kaplan and Ryan Dunn

Book Overview

Identity and Access Management are rapidly gaining importance as key areas of practice in the IT industry, and directory services provide the fundamental building blocks that enable them. For enterprise developers struggling to build directory-enabled .NET applications, The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming will come as a welcome aid. Microsoft MVPs Joe Kaplan and Ryan Dunn have written a practical introduction to programming directory services, using both versions 1.1 and 2.0 of the .NET Framework. The extensive examples in the book are in C#. Readers will Learn to create, rename, update, and delete objects in Active Directory and ADAM Learn to bind to and search directories effectively and efficiently Learn to read and write attributes of all types in the directory Learn to use directory services within ASP.NET applications Get concrete examples of common programming tasks such as managing Active Directory and ADAM users and groups, and performing authentication This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321350170
• ISBN13: 9780321350176
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A Good Guide to Challenging Ground

As other reviewers have noted, programming directory services is a complicated niche. This book provided a light and compass to a developer passing through this territory containing some rather strange-looking flora and fauna. My company's .NET-based application makes limited use of directory services. When migrating it to .NET 2.0, tens of warnings were generated when referencing the ActiveDs COM library, such as "could...

Great Aid in programming Active Directory

This is one book that you need if you are writing code for Active Directory. The author understands what issues developers face and what details are important when implementing solutions. It is not a reindexing of manufacturer's manual. You can take code out of this book and use it with understanding. I have used this book extensively and repeatedly. Tauqir

definitive guide to .Net AD programming

If you're looking to write AD or ADAM code in .Net, this is the book to get. Joe and Ryan do a great job of covering this topic, balancing a light writing style with deep coverage of the material and practical advice about writing directory-enabled code in real-world environments. For me, the ideal technical reference is one that I can read cover-to-cover as well as jump to a particular topic as-need to get immediate help...

Excellent Directory resource

The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming provides valuable insight in how to properly write .NET applications that use Active Directory or ADAM. It covers pretty much everything you need to know, to be effective in programming against a Directory Service using both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0. The book is very well written and provides sample code around any topic that it touches upon (download here: http://directoryprogramming.net/...

Excellent coverage of a difficult, poorly documented topic

This book is for all of you who need to write Active Directory based programs for .NET and ASP.NET. The voice of bitter experience: As anyone who has tried to learn how to program against Active Directory or ADAM knows, the on-line information at MSDN is extraordinarily confusing, not least because Microsoft has introduced several different technologies to access Active Directory--Native LDAP, System.DirectoryServices, System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory,...