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Active Directory & LDAP

There are many questions that come up regularly in the forums. These recipes address some of those questions. Recipes How to create a C# project to access Active Directory How to create a VB.Net project to access Active Directory How to query Active Directory

How to query Active Directory without hard-coding the domain name

It can be useful to be able to write code that can query the current domain without you having to hard-code the domain name. This article will show you how.Scenario Let us imagine that you have two Active Directory forests, one production and one development

Interface, abstract, partial and sealed classes

InterfaceAn interface is like a class but all the methods and properties are abstract. An Interface cannot be instantiated like abstract class. All the methods and properties defined in Interface are by default public and abstract.Abstract Class An abstract

State

State The State pattern allows an object to change it behaviour when its internal state changes. The pattern is a type of behavioral design pattern, and is also known as the objects for states pattern. This pattern is used in programming to represent the state

Lazy Loading

Lazy Loading is an object relational pattern which isused to defer the inialization of an object until its needed. The object will not contain all of the data, but it knows how to get all of them when they are needed.The object to be lazily loaded is originally