I am setting up a intranet site and would like to use the userid to determine who the person is and do 2 things with it.

1.) dispaly their first and last name on the home page

2.) find out the userType and turn on and off menu items based on that user type.

I really do not understand some/most of the solutions that I am finding as I am not a programmer.

We are using Visusal Studio 2010 and i do have the following information:

LDAP servers

Bind as true anonymous

Search using: uid attribute

userType is the logic

Make sure to do a Subtree search

Can anyone help with any of that, I am really lost