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Book review: The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming

March 6, 2008

Directory Services

This is THE book on Active Directory and LDAP programming in .NET. Why? Because it's the only book that covers  System.DirectoryServices. This book contains a lot of tips & tricks and best practices when it comes to integrating Active Directory, ADAM and other LDAP stores in your enterprise applications. At least when you are using .NET 1.x or .NET 2.0. As I already mentioned in this post, .NET 3.5 introduces a new namespace that makes it more productive to enable LDAP stores in your applications.

This new namespace makes the contents of this book a little bit obsolete, but certainly not for .NET 1.x and .NET 2.0 applications. I did some minor LDAP programming before I've read this book. The impression I have now is that I was doing it all wrong! For the current project I'm working on, I'll be doing a fair amount of LDAP programming as we need to integrate Active Directory and a third-party LDAP store. I know one thing for sure. This book will be on my side while I'm developing this.

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Thank you for visiting my blog. I’m a professional software developer since Y2K. A blogger since Y2K+5. Provider of training and coaching in XP practices. Curator of the Awesome Talks list. Past organizer of the European Virtual ALT.NET meetings. Thinking and learning about all kinds of technologies since forever.

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