Newbie in C sharp/ Microsoft Visio

[kiwi101]

Hi Guys,

I am attempting to run a code to output the username and accountLockoutTime in Active Directory. But I'm facing errors in the initial phases of the code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication4
{
    class Program
    {
        public void Main ()
        {
            PrincipleContext ctx = new PrincipleContext (ContextType.Domain "number")

The error coming is in using "PrincipleContext" :
1. The type or namespace name "PrincipleContext" could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference? For this I added the System COnfiguration .NET reference and still error

2. Only assignment, call, increment, decrement and new object expressions can be used as a statement.

[kiwi101]

Also the "number" after domain is a binary number I do not want to disclose so for the purposes of this thread I just wrote number

[kiwi101]

Okay so I've got it to define PrincipleContext but it is not defining ContextType saying that it doesn't exist in the current context?

What does that mean?

[Arjay]

1. The type or namespace name "PrincipleContext" could not be found. Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference? For this I added the System COnfiguration .NET reference and still error

System.Configuration has nothing to do with security. When you are using unfamiliar C# classes and need to find which assembly to reference, just look it up in msdn. For each class in msdn, you'll find the Namespace and Reference to use.

PrincipalContext Class in msdn.

From the link...

Namespace: System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement
Assembly: System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement (in System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dll)

[TheGreatCthulhu]

Also, after you add assembly & namespace references as described above, check you code for typos and syntax errors (there are both in the code you posted above):

PrincipleContext ctx = new PrincipleContext (ContextType.Domain "number")

should be

PrincipalContext ctx = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "number");