DirectoryEntry.NativeGuid

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06/29/2006

The NativeGuid property gets the globally unique identifier of the DirectoryEntry, as returned from the provider.

public String NativeGuid {get;}

Public ReadOnly Property NativeGuid As String

Property Value

The globally unique identifier of the DirectoryEntry, as returned from the provider.

Remarks

Use the NativeGuid property when binding an object in Active Directory.

Note The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) provider returns the globally unique identifier of a DirectoryEntry in a different format than the Internet Information Services (IIS), Novell NetWare Directory Server (NDS), and WinNT providers.

Example Code [Visual Basic .NET]

The following example demonstrates the Guid and NativeGuid properties of the DirectoryEntry class. This example gets the user-specified DirectoryEntry and displays its Guid and NativeGuid properties.

Dim myADSPath As [String] = "LDAP://onecity/CN=Users,
             DC=onecity,DC=corp,DC=fabrikam,DC=com"
Dim myDirectoryEntry As New DirectoryEntry(myADSPath)

' Display the Guid and NativeGuid.
Console.WriteLine("The GUID of the ADS object:" + myDirectoryEntry.Guid.ToString)
Console.WriteLine("The Native GUID of the ADS" + "object:" + 
             myDirectoryEntry.NativeGuid)

Example Code [C#]

String myADSPath = "LDAP://onecity/CN=Users,
             DC=onecity,DC=corp,DC=fabrikam,DC=com";
DirectoryEntry myDirectoryEntry=new DirectoryEntry(myADSPath);

// Display the Guid and NativeGuid.
Console.WriteLine("The GUID of the ADS object:"+
                  myDirectoryEntry.Guid);
Console.WriteLine("The Native GUID of the ADS"+
                  "object:"+myDirectoryEntry.NativeGuid);

Example Code [Managed C++]

String* myADSPath = S"LDAP://onecity/CN=Users,DC=onecity,DC=corp,DC=fabrikam,DC=com";
DirectoryEntry* myDirectoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry(myADSPath);

// Display the Guid and NativeGuid.
Console::WriteLine("The GUID of the ADS object: {0}", __box(myDirectoryEntry->Guid));
Console::WriteLine("The Native GUID of the ADS object: {0}",
                   myDirectoryEntry->NativeGuid);

Requirements

Client	Requires Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Me, or Windows 98.
Server	Requires Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, or Windows NT 4.0.
Namespace	Defined in System.DirectoryServices.
Assembly	Requires System.DirectoryServices (in System.DirectoryServices.dll).
.NET Framework	Requires .NET Framework 1.0.

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