The .NET Developer’s Guide to Directory Services Programming

Preface

We wrote this book with the vision that it would be the definitive guide for helping developers leverage directory services from Active Directory and Active Directory/Application Mode (ADAM) in their .NET applications. Even though version 1.0 of the .NET Framework shipped in 2001 with a namespace called System.DirectoryServices (SDS) for doing this kind of work, the resources available to developers using these technologies have lagged behind. This is the book that we fervently wished we had back when we were first developing software for Active Directory. It was an idea that took a little while to come to fruition: Perhaps a bit of our back story will help to frame our perspective.

Ryan was working at a very large professional services ...