[RESOLVED] Active Directory Integration

Hello Everyone. I'm glad to see there is another active VB community besides Microsofts.

I'm working with Visual Web Developer 2010 Express and I'm a VB coder. With that said I need some help with a web application that reads and modifies information in two location. Some information is from AD and the other is from a SQL db.

I took a stock Web Application that came with some predefined pages, one being a login page, and modified the login sequence to use AD for authentication.

Now I'm needing to do a few more things. I know how to read information from a SQL database but not from ActiveDirectory.

I want to take the currently logged in user and pull some information from AD: first name, last name, middle name, address, department, phone number, email address, etc.

I'm lost on how to read/write to AD.

Thanks for any help in advance. If anyone wants to see what I did for the AD login section, I will be happy to post my code.

For anyone that could use this in the future. Here is the code that I have used and tested.

Code:

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Private Function GetADObject(ByVal ojbectparam As String, ByVal ADUser As String) As String
        Dim ADOValue As String = ""
        Dim dE As New DirectoryEntry("LDAP://DC=xxx,DC=xxx")
        Dim dSearch = New DirectorySearcher(dE)
        dSearch.Filter = "(samaccountname=" & ADUser & ")"

        dSearch.PropertiesToLoad.Add(ojbectparam)
        Dim sr As SearchResult = dSearch.FindOne
        Dim x As System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry = sr.GetDirectoryEntry()

        If Not x.Properties(ojbectparam).Value Is Nothing Then
            ADOValue = x.Properties(ojbectparam).Value.ToString()
        End If

        Return ADOValue
    End Function

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That is the function that I called to return the specific value I was looking for.
Here is how to call the above function and use the current ASP.NET application logged in user. This particular call asks for the users last name.

Code:

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TextBox1.Text = GetADObject("sn", Membership.GetUser().ToString)

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