Utils.FindMVEntries Method (String, Value, Int32, String)

The FindMVEntries method is a static method that retrieves the metaverse entries with the specified attribute value and maximum number of results. The results are returned in the specified collation order.

Namespace: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices
Assembly: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServicesEx (in Microsoft.MetadirectoryServicesEx.dll)

Usage

'Usage
Dim attributeName As String
Dim value As Value
Dim maxResults As Integer
Dim collationOrder As String
Dim returnValue As MVEntry()

returnValue = Utils.FindMVEntries(attributeName, value, maxResults, collationOrder)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Function FindMVEntries ( _
    attributeName As String, _
    value As Value, _
    maxResults As Integer, _
    collationOrder As String _
) As MVEntry()

public static MVEntry[] FindMVEntries (
    string attributeName,
    Value value,
    int maxResults,
    string collationOrder
)

public:
static array<MVEntry^>^ FindMVEntries (
    String^ attributeName, 
    Value^ value, 
    int maxResults, 
    String^ collationOrder
)

public static MVEntry[] FindMVEntries (
    String attributeName, 
    Value value, 
    int maxResults, 
    String collationOrder
)

public static function FindMVEntries (
    attributeName : String, 
    value : Value, 
    maxResults : int, 
    collationOrder : String
) : MVEntry[]

Parameters

• attributeName
  Contains the name of the metaverse attribute to retrieve.

• value
  Contains a Value object the contains the value that the attribute identified by attributeName must contain.

• maxResults
  Contains the maximum number of metaverse entries to retrieve.

• collationOrder
  Contains a string that specifies the collation order. This string takes the form of the collation strings provided by the fn_helpcollations SQL function.

Return Value

Returns an array of MVEntry objects that represent the metaverse entries found in the search.

Exceptions

Exception type	Condition
System.ArgumentNullException	The attributeName or value parameter is null.
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException	The maxResults parameter is less than or equal to zero.
System.InvalidOperationException	The value represented by the value parameter cannot be converted to the data type of the attribute identified by attributeName.

Remarks

This method will throw an System.InvalidOperationException exception and the management agent run profile will stop with a status of stopped-extension-dll-exception if called from the following methods:

• The rules extension object constructor

• The Initialize method

• The Terminate method

• The Initialize method

• The Terminate method

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Target Platforms

See Also

Reference

Utils Class
Utils Members
Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices Namespace
MVEntry Class