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ActiveDirectoryMembershipUser.ProviderUserKey Property

Note: This property is new in the .NET Framework version 2.0.

Gets the user identifier from the Active Directory data store for the membership user.

Namespace: System.Web.Security
Assembly: System.Web (in system.web.dll)

public override Object ProviderUserKey { get; }
/** @property */
public Object get_ProviderUserKey ()

public override function get ProviderUserKey () : Object

Property Value

The user identifier from the Active Directory data store for the membership user.

The ProviderUserKey property exposes the identifier from the membership data source generically typed as an object. The ProviderUserKey class can be cast as a SecurityIdentifier object.

The following code example displays the ProviderUserKey property in Security Descriptor Definition Language (SDDL) format by converting it to a SecurityIdentifier object. For the full code required to run the example, see the Example section of the ActiveDirectoryMembershipUser class overview topic.

System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier sidValue =
  (System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier)user.ProviderUserKey;

sid.Text = sidValue.ToString();

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

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 2.0
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