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Principal Class
Visual Studio 2008
Encapsulates the account data and operations common to all security principals. This is the abstract base class from which all security principals are derived.
Assembly: System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement (in System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.dll)
Custom extension classes that derive from this class can call this constructor from the derived class constructor to initialize the base class. For more information, see the Principal Extensions overview topic.
System.Object
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.Principal
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.AuthenticablePrincipal
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.GroupPrincipal
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.Principal
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.AuthenticablePrincipal
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.GroupPrincipal
Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003
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.
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