InfoPath Dev

 I have had this problem for 3 days now. I entered this code but when I publish nothing happens not even the message box comes out. I really lost on wat is going on. when I use the this.Application.User.UserName; the user name comes out but if  I put the rest of the code it just goes dead.

CODE:

try
            {         
            string userName = this.Application.User.UserName;                    
                DirectorySearcher adSearch = new DirectorySearcher(new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://*****/OU=*****,DC=*****,DC=****"));
                adSearch.Filter = "(sAMAccountName=" + userName + ")";
                SearchResult adSearchResult = adSearch.FindOne();
                if (adSearchResult == null)
                {
                    MessageBox.Show("Error finding user: " + userName);                              
                }
                else
                {
                    DirectoryEntry employee = adSearchResult.GetDirectoryEntry();
                    string FirstName = (employee.Properties["displayName"].Value != null) ? employee.Properties["displayName"].Value.ToString():"";

                    XPathNavigator xnMyForm = this.CreateNavigator();
                    XmlNamespaceManager ns = this.NamespaceManager;
                    xnMyForm.SelectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:Name", ns).SetValue(FirstName);
                    xnMyForm = null;
                    adSearch.Dispose();
                    adSearchResult = null;
                    employee.Close();
                }
               
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("The following error occurred: " +
                   ex.Message.ToString());
               
            }         

Hey Nash,

For over five years people have been asking us to debug their Active Directory code. So, we developed an Active Directory Web Service: http://www.qdabra.com/en/products/ADWebService.aspx. It's cheap and comes with an hour of support.

If you aren't a developer, I recommend trying our service. It has a lot of features and will save you time.

If you are a developer, you should just debug your code... :)  We can't debug every specific line of code that goes into the forum. We are here to help people who have problems with InfoPath. In your case, it's a generic coding quesiton. Because we got so many forum posts that were the same, we developed the Active Directory Web Service.

Sorry I can't be of further assistance.

Nash. I will assume that you are using a Browser Enabled form.  Additionally I will assume that you dont have access to the web services described in the earlier post.  I ran into a similar issue and here is the problem.

MessageBox.Show is not a valid in the context you are using it.  In other words the form cannot display the message box.  It simply will crash.  Additionally removing the code probably left you with something like this example:

try

// Get the user name of the current user.

// Create a DirectorySearcher object using the user name

// as the LDAP search filter. If using a directory other

// than Exchange, use sAMAccountName instead of mailNickname.

"(mailNickname=" + userName + ")");

// Search for the specified user.

// Create a DirectoryEntry object to retrieve the collection

// of attributes (properties) for the user.

// Assign the specified properties to string variables.

"displayName"].Value.ToString();

// Create an XPathNavigator to walk the main data source

// of the form.

XmlNamespaceManager ns = this.NamespaceManager;

// Set the fields in the form.

// Clean up.

Thanks Steelman. You rock.

 thanks got it

I am publishing to a web browser form.  I can get the code to work in InfoPath, but not on the browser-enabled form.  It fills in the fields I need in InfoPath, but the fields are blank on the browser-enabled form.  I have searched everywhere on the web and cannot find an answer.  Please help.

Hi,

Does this code search for user in different domain? If not how would I modify code to search user in a different domain?

Thanks