DSML Paged Search Technology Sample

This sample demonstrates performing a paged search of the Active Directory using Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) Services. A paged search enables results to be received in pages. This sample is available only in Visual C#.

For information about using the samples, see the following topics:

• How to: View and Download Samples

• How to: Set Sample Settings

To build the sample

1. Open a Command Prompt window and navigate to the PagedSearch\CS directory.

2. Type msbuild pagedsearch.sln at the command line.

To run the sample

1. Navigate to the directory that contains the built executable file, using the command prompt.

2. Type pagesearched followed by its arguments and press Enter.

This sample has the following syntax:

pagedsearch <dsmlServer> <user> <pwd> <domain> <targetOU> 

• dsmlServer
  The server.

• user
  Your user name.

• pwd
  Your password.

• domain
  The Active Directory domain.

• targetOU
  The target organizational unit (OU).

Here is an example:

pagedsearch http://myDC1.testDom.fabrikam.com/dsml/adssoap.dsmlx user1 secret@~1 testDom OU=samples,DC=testDom,DC=fabrikam,DC=com

Note
This sample is a console application. You must start and run it in a Command Prompt window to view its output.

Remarks

This sample defines the following methods.

Method	Description
CreateConnection	Connects to the server using a DsmlSoapHttpConnection.
CreateObjectsToSearch	Adds a number of objects to the directory to be used in searching.
DoPagedSearch	Performs a paged search with a specified scope and attributes to return.
DeleteObjectsToSearch	Deletes the objects created for searching.