Opensource LDAP C# (active directory)

Question

At work we use Active Directory.

Active Directory (AD) is a directory service that Microsoft developed for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems as a set of processes and services. Initially, Active Directory was only in charge of centralized domain management. Starting with Windows Server 2008, however, Active Directory became an umbrella title for a broad range of directory-based identity-related services.( source )

My first goal is to create a small lightweight windows forms application to search on firstname and lastname , using only parts of the name.

Context: I like some functionalities of this tool . But it is not open source. And I need to make changes. And since StackOverflow does not encourage reverse engineering, I would rather write my own software ;-)

Being a Microsoft .NET developer, I started looking for Microsoft .NET libraries: Which are they? Is this it? Or is this it? I can't seem to find any really useful tutorials or easy to use API documentation.

I have read this: Using LDAP and Active Directory with C# 101 Which shares this . But that is basically nothing much.

Hence my question: Do you know whether there is open source C# code available for download? Which supports connecting to active directory, and performing LDAP operations?

Novell is a software company providing a similar but competitive directory, and they seem to provide excellent documentation about their 'LDAP Libraries for C sharp' This got me wondering: Could this be used to connect to 'Establish an LDAP Connection' and 'Perform LDAP Operations and Obtain Results' on Active Directory? Or should I just use Microsoft code? Considering AD is a directory services database, and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) is one of the protocols you can use to talk to it. It should be possible right?

Please share your knowledge and experience with me. I am total n00b when it comes to AD. I promise: once you get me started, I will share my beautiful code with you all.

Answer 1

您可以尝试使用这种基于Novell的存储库。