System.DirectoryServies can not be found

[Saqib Ali]

I trying to build a asp.net development env on my XP laptop to off-load
the development from our Win2k3 IIS development server.

I installed,
..net 2.0 SDK
IIS for XP
configured asp for net
but when i try to run my aspx web pages on the laptop, I get the
following error msg upon importing the System.DirectoryServices
namespace:

"Namespace or type specified in the Imports 'System.DirectoryServices'
doesn't contain any public member or cannot be found. Make sure the
namespace or the type is defined and contains at least one public
member. Make sure the imported element name doesn't use any aliases."

I think I am missing some piece, but I am not sure what. I didn't
install our dev servers, so I am not sure what other pieces are needed.

If I don't import the System.DirectoryServices namespace, then the app
works fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net

[Joe Kaplan]

You need to add an assembly reference to it first. It isn't a default
assembly. You can either do that with an Assembly page level directive or
via the web.config file using the <assemblies/element. Both are
documented in the SDK docs. VS also makes this easy for you, so maybe you'd
like to try using one of the free versions?

Joe K.

--
Joe Kaplan-MS MVP Directory Services Programming
Co-author of "The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming"
http://www.directoryprogramming.net
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>I trying to build a asp.net development env on my XP laptop to off-load
the development from our Win2k3 IIS development server.

I installed,
.net 2.0 SDK
IIS for XP
configured asp for net
but when i try to run my aspx web pages on the laptop, I get the
following error msg upon importing the System.DirectoryServices
namespace:

"Namespace or type specified in the Imports 'System.DirectoryServices'
doesn't contain any public member or cannot be found. Make sure the
namespace or the type is defined and contains at least one public
member. Make sure the imported element name doesn't use any aliases."

I think I am missing some piece, but I am not sure what. I didn't
install our dev servers, so I am not sure what other pieces are needed.

If I don't import the System.DirectoryServices namespace, then the app
works fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net

[Saqib Ali]

Thanks Joe !!! :)

I realized that I had forgot to define the Assembly in web.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation debug="true">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.DirectoryServices, Version=2.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"/></assemblies></compilation>
</system.web>
</configuration>

saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net