Just a quick example of how you can use the System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher class to find deleted objects (that have not yet reached the tombstone time limit) in your Active Directory domain.
Archives For VB.NET – General
If you have ever tried to enumerate all groups that a user is a member of in Active Directory then you have probably found that the standard way of doing this (looking at the user’s MemberOf attribute) does not get the user’s primary group. You probably then found out that the user is ‘joined’ to their primary group by simply having the Relative ID (RID) of the group in their PrimaryGroupID attribute. That’s great and all… but how do we translate that RID into the name of the group? Well I’m sure there are a few ways to do it but here’s the code I came up with:
Well getting the power scheme APIs working on Windows 7 and Vista is taking a little longer than expected so I thought I would bring this new version out without the power related methods so that people can use the other new methods sooner rather than later. Download link for new version is at the end of this post, but I encourage you to read the full post to see what has changed in this version.
Even though I only released my .NET Windows API library (Cjwdev.WindowsAPI) quite recently, I’m planning to release a new version pretty soon as there are still plenty of things I want to add to it. EDIT: New version is now available, see this post. I will be releasing updated versions fairly often rather than waiting until I have a large amount of new methods etc, so keep checking back on this blog for updates. This post describes the new methods and classes that I have added (or am planning to add) to the next release, along with the Windows APIs that the managed methods use. As always, let me know if there are any particular APIs you would like to see in here and I will try and get them in.
This is the first official release of my .NET Windows API pack – a class library that is intended to make it easier to work with several native Windows APIs from managed .NET code. There are over 50 Windows APIs defined in this library and roughly 30 managed methods that use these APIs to provide functionality that is not available in the .NET Framework today. Many more will be included in the next version but hopefully this first version will still be useful to a lot of people.
I have nearly finished the first release of my Windows API pack, which is a class library (DLL) that makes using certain Windows APIs from .NET code easier and simpler. You just add a reference to this class library and then you can call managed .NET methods from the library rather than having to figure out how to use the Windows APIs yourself. So far I have got just over 25 managed methods in this library, which makes use of roughly 45 Windows APIs. You can see a list of my managed methods and a description for each one below:
I’ll start off by saying that there is not much use for this because ordinarily you would use the .NET Framework’s built in Process class, but there are some rare scenarios where that is not possible so hopefully this will help some of you in that situation out. Basically this is a small vb.net app that demonstrates how to redirect the input and output of a console application that you have launched via the CreateProcess API (or CreateProcessAsUser etc).
