Active Directory .Net and Browsing the directory

[Chris Schrumm]

The following code when embedded in a ASP.NET page allows you to enumerate
through a the network with the rights of the account. When I view this information
in the debug local variables windows I see a property called browseGranted
and if I provide the correct password this is set to a value of true, however,
I can't compile the code and call this property. The only way I've been
able to call it is in the immediate window by typing Debug.Print dr.browseGranted.
Any idea what I should do?

using System.DirectoryServices;

DirectoryEntry dr = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://MyDomain", "username", "password",AuthenticationTypes.Secure);

// this won't compile
if(dr.browseGranted)
{
// send some message
}

[Patrick Long]

There are a lot of things that you can see at debug time that are private to
classes. This is probably one of those.

Another common example is the Request class. In a posted back ASP.NET that
will have a private _form object and a public FORM object. These both hold
the returned form vars, both are accesible in the locals window but only one
in your code.

Pat

"Chris Schrumm" <vb.@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:3d56c5d0$1@10.1.10.29...
>
> The following code when embedded in a ASP.NET page allows you to
enumerate
> through a the network with the rights of the account. When I view this
information
> in the debug local variables windows I see a property called browseGranted
> and if I provide the correct password this is set to a value of true,
however,
> I can't compile the code and call this property. The only way I've been
> able to call it is in the immediate window by typing Debug.Print
dr.browseGranted.
> Any idea what I should do?
>
> using System.DirectoryServices;
>
> DirectoryEntry dr = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://MyDomain", "username",
"password",AuthenticationTypes.Secure);
>
> // this won't compile
> if(dr.browseGranted)
> {
> // send some message
> }