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  How to get all AD attributes listed using UserPrincipal and PrincipalContext

  Nov 07, 2017 05:38 PM|bbcompent1|LINK

  Hello folks, I have been liking what I find with using PrincipalContext and UserPrincipal. However, what I want to do is load all AD attributes into an ArrayList and feed that into a data table to populate a detailsview control. However, I am stumped; I simply cannot figure out how to make this work. I would like to pass a saMAccountName to the query, then ask AD to return all user properties and their corresponding values. Here is my code at this point.

          {
              // TODO: Add panel that displays AD Details about selected PIN
              LinkButton lnk = (LinkButton)sender;
              string domainName = ddlDomainName.SelectedValue.ToString();
  
              PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain);
              UserPrincipal user = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(ctx, lnk.Text.ToString());
              DirectoryEntry up_User = (DirectoryEntry)user.GetUnderlyingObject();
              DirectorySearcher deSearch = new DirectorySearcher(up_User);
              SearchResultCollection results = deSearch.FindAll();
              int i = 0;
              if (results != null && results.Count > 0)
              {
                  DataTable dt = new DataTable();
                  ResultPropertyCollection rpc = results[0].Properties;
                  dt.Columns.Add("PropName");
                  dt.Columns.Add("PropValue");
  
                  foreach (string rp in rpc.PropertyNames)
                  {
                  //   Property name    rp.ToString();
                  //   property value    rpc[rp][0].ToString();
                       i++;
                  }
                  dvADPinDetails.DataSource = dt;
                  dvADPinDetails.DataBind();
                  pnlADPinDetails.Visible = true;
                  pnlGroupMembers.Visible = false;
              }
          }
  

  I am thinking about using a gridview for this purpose. Any ideas?

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  Re: How to get all AD attributes listed using UserPrincipal and PrincipalContext

  Nov 07, 2017 07:22 PM|bbcompent1|LINK

  Never mind, I figured it out on my own. This is what I ended up doing:

              LinkButton lnk = (LinkButton)sender;
              string domainName = ddlDomainName.SelectedValue.ToString();
  
              PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain);
              UserPrincipal user = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(ctx, lnk.Text.ToString());
              DirectoryEntry up_User = (DirectoryEntry)user.GetUnderlyingObject();
              DirectorySearcher deSearch = new DirectorySearcher(up_User);
              SearchResultCollection results = deSearch.FindAll();
              if (results != null && results.Count > 0)
              {
                  DataTable dt = new DataTable();
                  ResultPropertyCollection rpc = results[0].Properties;
                  dt.Columns.Add("PropName");
                  dt.Columns.Add("PropValue");
  
                  foreach (string rp in rpc.PropertyNames)
                  {
                      if (rpc[rp][0].ToString() == "System.Byte[]")
                      {
                          // skipping this line
                      }
                      else
                      {
                          dt.Rows.Add(rp.ToString(), rpc[rp][0].ToString());
                      }
                  }
                  gvADPinDetails.DataSource = dt;
                  gvADPinDetails.DataBind();
                  pnlADPinDetails.Visible = true;
                  pnlGroupMembers.Visible = false;
              }
  

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