Question

I’m developing an intranet site project (ASP.NET MVC project).
How do I associate a user in a domain to its account (UserAccount entity):

public class UserAccount {
    // normally inherited from an abstract entity
    public Guid Id { get; set; }
    public String FullName { get; set; }
    public String Password { get; set; }
    public Guid EmployeeId { get; set; }
}

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you are asking about how to query Active Directory to fetch a domain user details and populate the UserAccount class, you could use the following:

public UserAccount GetUserAccount(string username)
{
    using (var context = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain))
    using (var user = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(context, username))
    {
        return new UserAccount
        {
            Id = user.Guid,
            FullName = user.Name,
            Password = "FORGET ABOUT IT, YOU CAN'T RETRIEVE THE PASSWORD",
            EmployeeId = user.EmployeeId
        };
    }
}

But of course there’s already an ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider that you could use if you are working with Windows Authentication.