Gets or sets a value indicating the node in the Active Directory Domain Services hierarchy where the search starts.
(in System.DirectoryServices.dll)
Visual Basic (Declaration)
<DSDescriptionAttribute("DSSearchRoot")> _
Public Property SearchRoot As DirectoryEntry
Dim instance As DirectorySearcher
Dim value As DirectoryEntry
value = instance.SearchRoot
instance.SearchRoot = value
[DSDescriptionAttribute("DSSearchRoot")]
public DirectoryEntry SearchRoot { get; set; }
[DSDescriptionAttribute(L"DSSearchRoot")]
public:
property DirectoryEntry^ SearchRoot {
DirectoryEntry^ get ();
void set (DirectoryEntry^ value);
}
public function get SearchRoot () : DirectoryEntry
public function set SearchRoot (value : DirectoryEntry)
If SearchRoot is a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic), the search root is set to the root of the domain that your server is currently using.
There are several ways to search in the global catalog:
Enumerate the global catalog and pick the first child.
Specify the server name. Use the DsGetDcName function to find the global catalog. For more information on the DsGetDcName function, see the topic "DsGetDcName" in the MSDN Library at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library.
Get the RootDSE of the global catalog and ask for "rootNamingContext".
Use the global catalog, specifying a search path as if using LDAP. For example, "GC://OU=..., DC=..., DC=...".
The following C# code shows how to enumerate the global catalog and pick the first child.
DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry("GC://forestname");
IEnumerator ie = entry.Children.GetEnumerator();
ie.MoveNext();
entry = (DirectoryEntry)ie.Current;
DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(entry);
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98
The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
.NET Framework
Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0
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