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DirectoryEntry.Invoke Method

.NET Framework 2.0
Calls a method on the native Active Directory object.

Namespace: System.DirectoryServices
Assembly: System.DirectoryServices (in system.directoryservices.dll)

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public Object Invoke (
	string methodName,
	params Object[] args
)
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public Object Invoke (
	String methodName, 
	Object[] args
)
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public function Invoke (
	methodName : String, 
	... args : Object[]
) : Object
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Not applicable.

Parameters

methodName

The name of the method to invoke.

args

An array of type Object objects that contains the arguments of the method to invoke.

Return Value

The return value of the invoked method.
Exception type Condition

DirectoryServicesCOMException

The native method threw a COMException exception.

TargetInvocationException

The native method threw a TargetInvocationException exception. The InnerException property contains a COMException exception that contains information about the actual error that occurred.

If the return value of the native method implements the IADs interface, a corresponding DirectoryEntry is returned. For more information about the IADs interface, see the topic IADs in the MSDN Library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library.

Windows 98, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

The Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 is supported on Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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