DirectoryEntry.NativeGuid Property
Gets the GUID of the DirectoryEntry, as returned from the provider.
Assembly: System.DirectoryServices (in System.DirectoryServices.dll)
[DSDescriptionAttribute("DSNativeGuid")] [BrowsableAttribute(false)] public string NativeGuid { get; }
Property Value
Type: System.StringA Guid structure that represents the GUID of the DirectoryEntry, as returned from the provider.
Use the NativeGuid property when binding an object in Active Directory Domain Services.
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The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) provider returns the globally unique identifier of a DirectoryEntry in a different format than the Internet Information Services (IIS), Novell NetWare Directory Server (NDS), and WinNT providers. |
The following example demonstrates the Guid and NativeGuid properties of the DirectoryEntry class. This example gets the user-specified DirectoryEntry and displays its Guid and NativeGuid properties.
String myADSPath = "LDAP://onecity/CN=Users, DC=onecity,DC=corp,DC=fabrikam,DC=com"; DirectoryEntry myDirectoryEntry=new DirectoryEntry(myADSPath); // Display the Guid and NativeGuid. Console.WriteLine("The GUID of the ADS object:"+ myDirectoryEntry.Guid); Console.WriteLine("The Native GUID of the ADS"+ "object:"+myDirectoryEntry.NativeGuid);
Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
