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DirectoryEntry::Username Property

Gets or sets the user name to use when authenticating the client.

Namespace:  System.DirectoryServices
Assembly:  System.DirectoryServices (in System.DirectoryServices.dll)

[DSDescriptionAttribute(L"DSUsername")]
[TypeConverterAttribute(L"System.Diagnostics.Design.StringValueConverter, System.Design, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a")]
[BrowsableAttribute(false)]
public:
property String^ Username {
	String^ get ();
	void set (String^ value);
}

Property Value

Type: System::String
The user name to use when authenticating the client.

You can set the Username and Password in order to specify alternate credentials with which to access the information in Active Directory Domain Services. Any other DirectoryEntry objects retrieved from this instance (for example, through Children) are automatically created with the same alternate credentials.

The following example demonstrates the Username and Password properties of the DirectoryEntry class. This example gets the user-specified DirectoryEntry and the Path of all its Children.

String^ myADSPath = "LDAP://onecity/CN=Users,DC=onecity,DC=corp,DC=fabrikam,DC=com";

// Create an Instance of DirectoryEntry.
DirectoryEntry^ myDirectoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry(myADSPath);
myDirectoryEntry->Username = UserName;
myDirectoryEntry->Password = SecurelyStoredPassword;

// Get the Child ADS objects.
Console::WriteLine("The Child ADS objects are:");
Collections::IEnumerator^ myEnum = myDirectoryEntry->Children->GetEnumerator();
while (myEnum->MoveNext()) 
{
    DirectoryEntry^ myChildDirectoryEntry = safe_cast<DirectoryEntry^>(myEnum->Current);
    Console::WriteLine(myChildDirectoryEntry->Path);
}

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

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.
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