System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement in .net 2.0

Question

Whether there is a:

string name = System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPrincipal.Current.DisplayName;

equivalence in .net 2.0 framework? It uses the link System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement (ver. 3.5). I tried to use this file in a .net 2.0 environment, but to no avail.

Basically, I want to get the full username (first and last name) of the Windows user (not Request.ServerVariables ["REMOTE_USER"], which gives only the Windows username)

Answer 1

The S.DS.AM namespace was introduced in .NET 3.5 and, unfortunately, there is no version 2.0.

You can query the current Windows user in an ASP.NET application using WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent (). Name - this gives you DOMAIN \ UserName.

You will then need to search the user in AD for that user with a DirectorySearcher object to find the appropriate DirectoryEntry. This will give you all the pieces of this user.

string currentUser = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name; string[] domainUserName = currentUser.Split('\\'); string justUserName = domainUserName[1]; DirectoryEntry searchRoot = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://dc=(yourcompany),dc=com"); DirectorySearcher ds = new DirectorySearcher(searchRoot); ds.SearchScope = SearchScope.Subtree; ds.PropertiesToLoad.Add("sn"); ds.PropertiesToLoad.Add("givenName"); ds.Filter = string.Format("(&(objectCategory=person)(samAccountName={0}))", justUserName); SearchResult sr = ds.FindOne(); if (sr != null) { string firstName = sr.Properties["givenName"][0].ToString(); string lastName = sr.Properties["sn"][0].ToString(); } 

This is a bit complicated and related to .NET 2.0 - cannot change this: - (

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