Access Active Directory from Pocket PC App

[MS Newsgroups]

Hi,

I would like to create a list of employees and telephone numbers in a Pocket
PC application, normally i would use the system.directoryservices name
space, but i can't find that this is available in the Compact Framework. Is
there any other way of doing this ? I was thinking of enumerating the
directory into a dataset that could be used when offline.

Any ideas on how to access the directory would be appreciated.

Niclas

[steve]

you need to post this in the news://microsoft.public.pocketpc.developer ng.

to answer your question, the quick and easy way to accomplish this is to
create a web service accessible to the information. the web service can use
the system.directoryservices namespace, create your dataset and soap/xml it
to the calling hand-held (actually any device/pc). otherwise you get into
some interesting - and problematic - scenarios.

hth,

steve
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Hi,

I would like to create a list of employees and telephone numbers in a Pocket PC application, normally i would use the system.directoryservices name
space, but i can't find that this is available in the Compact Framework. Is there any other way of doing this ? I was thinking of enumerating the
directory into a dataset that could be used when offline.

Any ideas on how to access the directory would be appreciated.

Niclas