Directory Programming .NET

Hi,

As I understand the S.DS.P Namespace dosent reuse/cache LDAP connections, and this is something that developers must make themselves to prevent TCP time_wait connections on a Active Directory server!

Could you give me some example how you do this? Im relatively new to VB.NET/ASP.NET but i understand C# as well.

Many people have questions about this topic and i would appreciate if you could help me with this.

/J

The LdapConnection class is thread-safe, so you can simply reuse that on requests.  The underlying Request/Reply model is layered on top of this connection.  It is up to you to maintain the connection, which is your 'pooling'.  For ASP.NET, this is harder to do, but for longer running apps (WPF, Services, WebForms, etc.) you just maintain an open connection and operate on it.

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Ryan Dunn
Extemporaneous Mumblings
The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming