Foreword

A couple of years ago, I began work on an identity-aware application that would involve programming against Active Directory. At that time, the .NET Framework was at version 1.1, and System.DirectoryServices clearly was where I wanted to invest my energy. I was shocked that a book search revealed virtually no hits on this topic. There were a few older books on ADSI programming, many of which were targeted at system administrators who use ADSI scripts to automate much of their day-to-day chores. But there was nothing for me, a .NET developer who simply wanted to write an identity-aware application.

Knowing the tremendous value of having a great technical book by my side, I tried something crazy. I posted an entry on my blog1 suggesting ...

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