creating dynamic mini representation of the Active directory tree.

Silverlight provides support for dynamic languages such as IronRuby and IronPython. We'll walk you through the creation of a custom Silverlight control using Bing Maps and IronRuby.

Ashish Ghoda

MSDN Magazine February 2010

This article explains how you can use Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 to claims-enable Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and browser-based applications. The focus is on the token issuance functionality in AD FS 2.0. You'll find out how to use AD FS 2.0 as an identity provider; set up an AD FS 2.0 security token service (STS) to interact with WCF; federate AD FS 2.0 with your custom STS or another AD FS 2.0; enable Web single sign-on and federation with WS-Federation and SAML 2.0 protocols; and externalize authentication logic through Visual Studio. You'll come away appreciating how AD FS 2.0 and Windows Identity Foundation make programming identity solutions in Windows less of a chore.

Zulfiqar Ahmed

MSDN Magazine November 2009

If you're not taking advantage of Active Directory, you should be. Learn the benefits from Keith Brown.

Keith Brown

MSDN Magazine July 2007

Use Active Directory Federation Services to allow other organizations to use your Web applications without the need for you to grant access explicitly.

Keith Brown

MSDN Magazine November 2006

System.DirectoryServices is a managed code layer on top of Active Directory Service Interfaces, and you can employ it to better manage Active Directory from your code. Here Ethan Wilansky helps you get started.

Ethan Wilansky

MSDN Magazine December 2005

Design patterns are a powerful tool for designing flexible soft-ware. They provide well-tested solutions to recurring software design problems. One such widely used pattern is the Concrete Factory.

Romi Kovacs

MSDN Magazine March 2003

Hi

Real newbie question :-)

I currently get the current logged on user info from AD by using :

Label1.Text = Page.User.Identity.Name.ToString

However now I need to get the following :

Label2 = (this must show the current logged on user's email address)

Label3 = (this must show the current user's manager)

any help would be appreciated
 

Authentication with AD is just a call to the predefined function.. 
you just need following references:

using System.DirectoryServices;
using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement;
using System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory;

and one dll:
using UserAuthentication;  //dll that you need to be download.. search for it from our god: google

Code:

string adPath = "LDAP://" + System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["DefaultActiveDirectoryServer"]; 
        ActiveDirectoryValidator adAuth = new ActiveDirectoryValidator(adPath);
        if (adAuth.IsAuthenticated(domainName, userName, password))
       {
             //user is authenticated with the given username and password
 dynamic creating controls in webpart 
  
Hello everybody,
 
My webpart (wss 3.0, VS2005) initialy contain a listbox. Depeding on the selection made a certain amount of textboxes are to be created and rendered. Via these dynamically created / rendered textboxes text can be submitted (via a button), for futher processing.
 
I am not sure how, or where in the webpart code, to dynamically create these textboxes.
 
Maybe somebody can give me some advise on this topic.
 
Thanks in advance
 
Gijs