DirectorySearcher Example
The following code examples show how to search for all users in a domain. It contains some basic required tasks such as using a C# try-catch or Visual Basic .NET try-catch-finally statement to catch errors and error handling for all the errors that can be thrown by the DirectorySearcher object.
Try
' Bind to the users container.
Dim entry As New
DirectoryEntry("LDAP://CN=users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com")
' Create a DirectorySearcher object.
Dim mySearcher As New DirectorySearcher(entry)
' Create a SearchResultCollection object to hold a collection
' of SearchResults returned by the FindAll method.
Dim result As SearchResultCollection = mySearcher.FindAll()
' Create an object to hold a single result from the
' result collection.
Dim resEnt1 As SearchResult
' Get search results. For more information,
' see Getting Search Results.
'
' This sample uses Try...Catch to catch errors.
' Create an Exception object. For more information,
' see System.Exception.
Catch Exception1 As System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException
Console.WriteLine(Exception1.Message)
Catch Exception2 As InvalidOperationException
Console.WriteLine(Exception2.Message)
Catch Exception3 As NotSupportedException
Console.WriteLine(Exception3.Message)
End Try
try
{
// Bind to the users container.
DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://CN=users,DC=fabrikam,DC=com");
// Create a DirectorySearcher object.
DirectorySearcher mySearcher = new DirectorySearcher(entry);
// Create a SearchResultCollection object to hold a collection of SearchResults
// returned by the FindAll method.
SearchResultCollection result = mySearcher.FindAll();
// Get search results. For more information, see Getting Search Results.
// ...
// This sample uses Try...Catch to catch errors.
// Create an Exception object. For more information, see System.Exception.
}
catch (System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException)
{
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException exception = new System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException();
Console.WriteLine(exception);
}
catch (InvalidOperationException)
{
InvalidOperationException InvOpEx = new InvalidOperationException();
Console.WriteLine(InvOpEx.Message);
}
catch (NotSupportedException)
{
NotSupportedException NotSuppEx = new NotSupportedException();
Console.WriteLine(NotSuppEx.Message);
}
See Also
Reference
System.DirectoryServices
DirectorySearcher
Concepts
Other Resources
Directory Synchronization Search Technology Sample
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