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23-Aug-12 7:49

Hi I am new to active directory. I have an application in c# and want to use active directory login dialogbox in the application. I saw lots of code everywhere. Want to know how the login screen will popup. Is it automatic if you call code below?

DirectoryEntry userEntry = new DirectoryEntry(users.Path, LDAPUser, LDAPPassword);

ADUserDetail userInfo = ADUserDetail.GetUser(userEntry);
userlist.Add(userInfo);

}
directorySearch.Filter = "(&(objectClass=group)(SAMAccountName=" +fName + "*))";

SearchResultCollection results = directorySearch.FindAll();

Thanks in advance,
Sai

fjdiewornncalwe23-Aug-12 8:06

23-Aug-12 8:06

The code you have would be used to validate the entry a user has made in a login dialog, but you still have to show the login dialog before you can call this code.

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mamoony23-Aug-12 8:32

23-Aug-12 8:32

Where can I find the log in dialog call. It is a windows c# applicatin.

Thanks,
Sai

fjdiewornncalwe23-Aug-12 8:42

23-Aug-12 8:42

There isn't one by default. You have to create it. (at least that is the case in Windows.Forms) If you are using WPF, I'm not entirely sure if there is a prebuilt component you can use.

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mamoony23-Aug-12 8:46

23-Aug-12 8:46

Thanks,

So I have to create a login form using buttons and textboxes and then use the active directory code to verify the user?

Thanks,
Sai

fjdiewornncalwe23-Aug-12 8:52

23-Aug-12 8:52

correct.

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mamoony23-Aug-12 9:13

23-Aug-12 9:13

Thank you

mamoony23-Aug-12 8:48

23-Aug-12 8:48

How can I use WPF? I heard the name before. What is Active Directory Common Dialog and DirectoryObjectpickerDialog?

Thanks,
Sai

fjdiewornncalwe23-Aug-12 8:52

I want to Learn How to make Electronic Gadgets

23-Aug-12 8:52

Those won't be what you want. If your application isn't already WPF you can't just use it. You would have to create a new project in WPF then.
Since you are using WinForms, you'll have to create a login dialog from scratch.

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Varinder Raii23-Aug-12 3:24

Varinder Raii

23-Aug-12 3:24

Hi Friends

I Want to Learn How to make Electronic Gadgets.
Currently I am developing ERPs using .Net2010 in C#.

I want to know from where, I should start.

Thanks..

Er. Varinder

Wes Aday23-Aug-12 3:35

23-Aug-12 3:35

Member 7820220 wrote:
Electronic Gadgets

Sorry I am not seeing the connection between you wanting to create electronic gadgets and this being a programming site....

[Edit]
Check out
www.ghielectronics.com[^]

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modified 23-Aug-12 9:55am.

BobJanova23-Aug-12 3:38

BobJanova

23-Aug-12 3:38

Any 'gadget' that is advanced enough that you can program on it will be using embedded C (possibly C++), not C#.

Wes Aday23-Aug-12 3:54

23-Aug-12 3:54

BobJanova wrote:
embedded C (possibly C++), not C#.

Not necessarily true. GHIElectronics, www.ghielectronics.com, manufactures a microprocessor that uses the .NET compact framework and you can program them in C# or VB.NET. WPF if you use a touchscreen.

[Edit]
Granted anything that he does professionally with probbably be C.... but for a hobby project GHI might be just the thing he is looking for.

BobJanova23-Aug-12 5:08

BobJanova

23-Aug-12 5:08

Hm, interesting. I thought that chips wanted to keep the environment down as much as possible, and even the Compact Framework is a lot bigger than a C-capable device.

Wes Aday23-Aug-12 5:22

23-Aug-12 5:22

BobJanova wrote:
environment down as much as possible

That is true. But it's a very cheap way for a hobbyist to get into that arena. Which is the market I think that they go after. I know that the processors that we used in my previous life were cheap and all that but oh my lord how they raped you on the price for the programming tools and the interface.

Wes Aday23-Aug-12 4:34

23-Aug-12 4:34

And countered.

WebMaster24-Aug-12 13:18

WebMaster

24-Aug-12 13:18

You've posted your message to C# Forum then ask us "not C#".
Maybe C/C++ forum was more helpful.

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jschell23-Aug-12 8:28

jschell

23-Aug-12 8:28

Some magazines

http://circuitcellar.com/magazine/[^]

http://www.nutsvolts.com/[^]

If you have no experience then when you start you will have no knowledge nor tools. So persistence is key to getting to the point where you do have that.

Roger Wright23-Aug-12 11:18

Roger Wright

23-Aug-12 11:18

Fifty years ago I wanted to learn how to make electronic gadgets, too. So I read books - from the library, at first - and I mail ordered parts from the back pages of electronics hobby magazines. I used those parts to build the neat things I found in the magazines. Then I went to school and learned all the math and science I could, so that I could one day understand all that I'd read. After a long, long time I was an electronics engineer, and designed and built with my own hands all sorts of cool electronic gadgets. You can do the same thing, though it's harder now. Everything is digital, and you don't learn anything about electronics doing that trivial stuff. But you can still have fun connecting devices together like kids' blocks and making them do stuff. Although you won't learn much about electronics, for sheer fun I'd suggest that you check out Lego MindStorm kits. These let you build your own robots and program them, which would probably fit better with what you really want to do. Have fun with it! Big Grin | :-D

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glennPattonWork323-Aug-12 23:45

glennPattonWork3

23-Aug-12 23:45

Just a thought but the Forrest M Mimms III books are a good starting point not too expensive and not too Maths intensive, plus you get to make some really novel things, that more or less how I started Smile | :)

jschell24-Aug-12 8:30

jschell

24-Aug-12 8:30

Are those up to date?