How to get ADs Providers list (C#)
Hi, welcome back,
We may want to get the list of Active Directory Providers ("LDAP:", "WinNT:", "IIS:"...) with .NET the same way we do it with this VBScript:
Set ads = GetObject("ADs:")
For Each provider In ads
Wscript.Echo provider.Name
Next
The information we need is here in the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ADs\Providers. So the following sample code will get the info we need:
using Microsoft.Win32;
...
// Get the HKLM registry key
RegistryKey RegKey = Registry.LocalMachine;
// Open the sub-key which contains all the providers
RegistryKey ProviderKey = RegKey.OpenSubKey(@"Software\Microsoft\ADs\Providers");
// Get the list of the sub-keys
string[] SubKeys = ProviderKey.GetSubKeyNames();
// Create the string array which will hold the provider list
string[] ListOfProviders = new string[SubKeys.Length];
// Now add all providers to the array
for (int Count = 0; Count < SubKeys.Length; Count++)
{
ListOfProviders[Count] = SubKeys[Count] + ":";
}
// Show the list of providers
foreach (string providerName in ListOfProviders)
{
MessageBox.Show(providerName);
}
...
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Alex (Alejandro Campos Magencio)
