From Login to username!

[rcoco]

Oh! here comes Another problem I'm Not supposed to use Loginname
anymore I'm supposed to use username is there anyway I can Do it in
widows Authentic?
Thanks

[Peter Bradley]

They're the same thing in every project I can recall. Are they different
things in your project?
Peter

"rcoco" <nc******@yahoo.cawrote in message
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Oh! here comes Another problem I'm Not supposed to use Loginname
anymore I'm supposed to use username is there anyway I can Do it in
widows Authentic?
Thanks

[rcoco]

Yes they are different in my project. if I loggin I caould use
something like ot002 But The Name would be Robert,Douglas.
Do you have an Idea.
Thanks.

[Mark Rae]

"rcoco" <nc******@yahoo.cawrote in message
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Yes they are different in my project. if I loggin I caould use
something like ot002 But The Name would be Robert,Douglas.
Do you have an Idea.

You keep providing an extra little bit of information with every subsequent
post...

Are you saying now that you are using Windows Authentication and you need to
query Active Directory in order to retrieve the display name of the
currently logged-on user...?

[rcoco]

No actually The Login name is not the name of the user. But they are
both registered onto windows. If one logs on and press on the start
button the name the name is displayed but the login name is different
And this time I want to display the name of the user not his login Id.
Hope you understand my situation.
Thanks.

[Mark Rae]

"rcoco" <nc******@yahoo.cawrote in message
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No actually The Login name is not the name of the user. But they are
both registered onto windows.

What does that actually mean...?

If one logs on and press on the start
button the name the name is displayed but the login name is different
And this time I want to display the name of the user not his login Id.
Hope you understand my situation.

Sorry - I don't...

[Alexey Smirnov]

On Mar 26, 4:23 pm, "rcoco" <[e-mail]:

Oh! here comes Another problem I'm Not supposed to use Loginname
anymore I'm supposed to use username is there anyway I can Do it in
widows Authentic?
Thanks

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...03fc4b8943fd13

[rcoco]

Thanks Alexey,
I'm trying to put this code into c# I'm not so sure if it's wright.
the code in VB:
Dim DomainUser As String =
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt.Name.Replace("\",
"/")
Dim ADEntry As New
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" & DomainUser)
Dim FullName As String = ADEntry.Properties("FullName").Value
And I'm changing it in C# like this:
String DomainUser =
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt.Name.Replace("\
\","/");
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNt://"& DomainUser);
String Fullname = ADEntry.Properties("FullName").Value;

But I'm getting these errors
1:'System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCu rrent()' denotes a
'method' which is not valid in the given context
2:Operator '&' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and
'string'
3:The type or namespace name 'ADEntry' could not be found (are you
missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Where I'm I going Wrong?
Thanks.

[Mark Rae]

"rcoco" <nc******@yahoo.cawrote in message
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So you *are* trying to query ActiveDirectory...sigh!

Thanks Alexey,
I'm trying to put this code into c# I'm not so sure if it's wright.
the code in VB:
Dim DomainUser As String =
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt.Name.Replace("\",
"/")
Dim ADEntry As New
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" & DomainUser)
Dim FullName As String = ADEntry.Properties("FullName").Value
And I'm changing it in C# like this:
String DomainUser =
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt.Name.Replace("\
\","/");
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNt://"& DomainUser);
String Fullname = ADEntry.Properties("FullName").Value;

But I'm getting these errors

1:'System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCu rrent()' denotes a
'method' which is not valid in the given context

That's because you've omitted the parentheses:
System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurre nt().Name.Replace("\\","/");

2:Operator '&' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and
'string'

That's because the string concatenation operator in C# is +, not &
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + DomainUser);

3:The type or namespace name 'ADEntry' could not be found (are you
missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

That's because you've forgotten to actually instantiate the ADEntry
object...
DirectoryEntry ADEntry = new
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + DomainUser);

[rcoco]

Thanks,
I've still gotten 2 errors:
1:The type or namespace name 'DirectoryEntry' could not be found (are
you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
On statement: DirectoryEntry ADEntry = new
System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry("WintNT://"+DomainUser);

2:The type or namespace name 'ADEntry' could not be found (are you
missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
On statement: string Fullname = ADEntry.Properties("FullName").Value;

What's wrong?
Thanks

[Mark Rae]

"rcoco" <nc******@yahoo.cawrote in message
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What's wrong?

Have you forgotten to include the System.Directory namespace...?

[rcoco]

at First yes but I've just add System. DirectoryServices;
And I still get an error this time it's:
The type or namespace name 'DirectoryServices' does not exist in the
class or namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

[Mark Rae]

"rcoco" <nc******@yahoo.cawrote in message
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at First yes but I've just add System. DirectoryServices;
And I still get an error this time it's:
The type or namespace name 'DirectoryServices' does not exist in the
class or namespace 'System' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

And what do you think that could possibly mean...?

In your Project explorer, right-click on References and set a reference to
the System.DirectoryServices assembly...

[rcoco]

Thanks Mark,
But after that I got this error:
'System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Propertie s' denotes a
'property' where a 'method' was expected
Thanks

[Mark Rae]

"rcoco" <nc******@yahoo.cawrote in message
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Thanks Mark,
But after that I got this error:
'System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Propertie s' denotes a
'property' where a 'method' was expected

Hmm - we really are getting a long way in a long time this morning, aren't
we...

If this is your first C# project, you might want to familiarise yourself
with how it differs syntactically from VB.NET - it will save you a huge
amount of time...

Anyway, in C#, indexed property collections are referenced with square
brackets, not parentheses...

String Fullname = ADEntry.Properties["FullName"].Value;