LDAP or active directory?

[Mike]

In my current asp.net application i'm getting the user network short name
and displaying that on the screen. What I want is the users Full name and
display that instear. How can i go about doing that, would I use LDAP or
Active directory to do that?

I never had to do this and not sure how to do it or where to start looking.

Ex: this is what i get now.
jsmith - network logon ID

what I want is:
John Smith.

is this possible?
thx

[Eric Guillemette]

This function do exactly what you need :0)

I'm using this function with WinForms, but I think that's will work in
Asp.Net too.

Public Shared Function GetFullName(ByV al DomainName As String, ByVal
UserName As String) As String
Dim oDirectory As New DirectoryEntry( "LDAP://" & DomainName)
Dim mySearcher As New DirectorySearch er(oDirectory)
Dim oResult As SearchResult
Dim sResult As String
mySearcher.Sear chScope = SearchScope.Sub tree
mySearcher.Refe rralChasing = ReferralChasing Option.All
mySearcher.Filt er = "(&(objectClass =user)(sAMAccou ntName=" & UserName &
"))"

Try
oResult = mySearcher.Find One
If Not oResult Is Nothing Then
sResult =
oResult.GetDire ctoryEntry.Prop erties("Display Name").Value.To String
End If
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try

oResult = Nothing
mySearcher.Disp ose()
oDirectory.Disp ose()

Return sResult
End Function
--
Eric

"Mike" <cs*********@sb cglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Or******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

In my current asp.net application i'm getting the user network short name
and displaying that on the screen. What I want is the users Full name and
display that instear. How can i go about doing that, would I use LDAP or
Active directory to do that?

I never had to do this and not sure how to do it or where to start looking.
Ex: this is what i get now.
jsmith - network logon ID

what I want is:
John Smith.

is this possible?
thx

[Mike]

are you writing the name anywhere for view?
I need to display the name as well.

"Eric Guillemette" <er***********@ jalphaDeleteThi s.com> wrote in message
news:#h******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

This function do exactly what you need :0)

I'm using this function with WinForms, but I think that's will work in
Asp.Net too.

Public Shared Function GetFullName(ByV al DomainName As String, ByVal
UserName As String) As String
Dim oDirectory As New DirectoryEntry( "LDAP://" & DomainName)
Dim mySearcher As New DirectorySearch er(oDirectory)
Dim oResult As SearchResult
Dim sResult As String
mySearcher.Sear chScope = SearchScope.Sub tree
mySearcher.Refe rralChasing = ReferralChasing Option.All
mySearcher.Filt er = "(&(objectClass =user)(sAMAccou ntName=" & UserName & "))"

Try
oResult = mySearcher.Find One
If Not oResult Is Nothing Then
sResult =
oResult.GetDire ctoryEntry.Prop erties("Display Name").Value.To String
End If
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try

oResult = Nothing
mySearcher.Disp ose()
oDirectory.Disp ose()

Return sResult
End Function
--
Eric

"Mike" <cs*********@sb cglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Or******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

In my current asp.net application i'm getting the user network short name and displaying that on the screen. What I want is the users Full name and display that instear. How can i go about doing that, would I use LDAP or
Active directory to do that?

I never had to do this and not sure how to do it or where to start

looking.

Ex: this is what i get now.
jsmith - network logon ID

what I want is:
John Smith.

is this possible?
thx

[Eric Guillemette]

You can do anything you want, this function return a string wich contains
the full name of the user.

Exemple:

'My domain name's: MyDomain
'My UserName's: Eric
Dim s As String = GetFullName("My Domain", "Eric")

The variable 's' will contain "Eric Guillemette" (My full name)

you can put this in a label, combobox, whatever...

--
Eric

"Mike" <cs*********@sb cglobal.net> wrote in message
news:eo******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P12.phx.gbl...

are you writing the name anywhere for view?
I need to display the name as well.

"Eric Guillemette" <er***********@ jalphaDeleteThi s.com> wrote in message
news:#h******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

This function do exactly what you need :0)

I'm using this function with WinForms, but I think that's will work in
Asp.Net too.

Public Shared Function GetFullName(ByV al DomainName As String, ByVal
UserName As String) As String
Dim oDirectory As New DirectoryEntry( "LDAP://" & DomainName)
Dim mySearcher As New DirectorySearch er(oDirectory)
Dim oResult As SearchResult
Dim sResult As String
mySearcher.Sear chScope = SearchScope.Sub tree
mySearcher.Refe rralChasing = ReferralChasing Option.All
mySearcher.Filt er = "(&(objectClass =user)(sAMAccou ntName=" & UserName

&

"))"

Try
oResult = mySearcher.Find One
If Not oResult Is Nothing Then
sResult =
oResult.GetDire ctoryEntry.Prop erties("Display Name").Value.To String
End If
Catch ex As Exception
Throw ex
End Try

oResult = Nothing
mySearcher.Disp ose()
oDirectory.Disp ose()

Return sResult
End Function
--
Eric

"Mike" <cs*********@sb cglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Or******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...

In my current asp.net application i'm getting the user network short

name and displaying that on the screen. What I want is the users Full name and display that instear. How can i go about doing that, would I use LDAP or Active directory to do that?

I never had to do this and not sure how to do it or where to start

looking.

Ex: this is what i get now.
jsmith - network logon ID

what I want is:
John Smith.

is this possible?
thx