The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming

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#; a companion Web site includes both C# and Visual Basic source code and examples.

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. Experienced .NET developersthose building enterprise applications or simply interested in learning about directory serviceswill find that The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming unravels the complexities and helps them to avoid the common pitfalls that developers face.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Part I:  Fundamentals
Chapter 01.  Introduction to LDAP and Active Directory
Chapter 02.  Introduction to .NET Directory Services Programming
Chapter 03.  Binding and CRUD Operations with DirectoryEntry
Chapter 04.  Searching with the DirectorySearcher
Chapter 05.  Advanced LDAP Searches
Chapter 06.  Reading and Writing LDAP Attributes
Chapter 07.  Active Directory and ADAM Schema
Chapter 08.  Security in Directory Services Programming
Chapter 09.  Introduction to the ActiveDirectory Namespace
Chapter 10.  User Management
Chapter 11.  Group Management
Chapter 12.  Authentication
Appendix A.  Three Approaches to COM Interop with ADSI
Appendix B.  LDAP Tools for Programmers
Appendix C.  Troubleshooting and Help

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