DirectoryEntry.NativeGuid Property
Gets the GUID of the DirectoryEntry, as returned from the provider.
Namespace: System.DirectoryServices
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 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
