Checking Active Directory groups

A common practice is to assign security through Active Directory groups. NAV supports this out-of-the-box, but does not give a way to manually check those groups from code. For that you will need to implement a .NET class.

Getting ready

The codeunit from the Checking for user-assigned roles recipe should be created.

How to do it...

1. Create the following class in Visual Studio. You will need to add a reference to System.DirectoryServices.

   using System;
   using System.Collections;
   using System.DirectoryServices;
   using System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory;
   using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
   using System.Security.Principal;
   namespace NAV_ActiveDirectory
   {
   [ProgId("NAV_ActiveDirectory")]
   [ComVisible(true)]
   [ClassInterface(ClassInterfaceType.AutoDual)]
   public class NAV_ActiveDirectory
   {
   private ArrayList properties;
   private string userdn;
   private int propertiesIndex;
   public NAV_ActiveDirectory()
   {
   properties = new ArrayList();
   propertiesIndex = 0;
   }
   public void...