[Mono-devel-list] User-defined explicit conversions and LDAP

[Olof Härwell]

Thats sounds interesting. Now in times of Novell/Ximian mergers, will this novell-supported LDAP/C# lib be put under Mono or will it be a more of a stand-alone Novell.LDAP.X lib hosted by Novell Forge? If you guys needs help with the Netscape and MS AD testing and verification I can help you out there since we are currently using these in our existing product (using Microsoft.DirectoryServices + ADSI) or any other area. 

However there still remains the issue of making Microsoft.DirectoryServices fully functional and preferably (IMHO anyway) without the need for external, native lib. Maybe the Novell effort could be split in two, with a shared core and then with two end-editions: one 100% Microsoft.DirectoryServices compatible and one fully-featured Novell.LDAP lib (FYI, the JLDAP lib implemented by Novell covers much more ldap-functionality than Microsoft.DirectoryServices).

Cheers
Olof

Matt Ryan wrote:
> I'm currently trying to coordinate existing open-source efforts for a C# LDAP implementation with those here at Novell such that there is a good class library for Mono and LDAP.
> 
> 
> 
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>>>>Olof Härwell <olof.harwell at labs2.com> 9/26/2003 3:13:02 AM >>>
> 
> Hi All
> 
> New to the list and Mono in general I have two questions (that I got 
> after starting to port my existing work to Mono):
> 
> How is the status/strategy regarding LDAP in Mono?
> Should the Mono.Directory.LDAP be extended and continue to use external 
> lib? Or should the Microsoft.DirectoryServices be implemented in a way 
> that is doesn't use ADSI? One idea could maybe be to port the 
> OpenLDAP/Novell JLDAP (http://www.openldap.org/jldap/) to c#. This would 
> give use a framework that isn't dependent on any external libs. Any 
> comments?
> 
> Also, I couldn't get the nice User-Defined explicit cast-feature to work 
>   as it did in MS CLR. Is this feature not supported yet? (More info 
> about it below)
> 
> User-Defined Conversions Tutorial
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csref/html/vcwlkuser-definedconversionstutorial.asp>
> 
> 6.4.4 User-defined explicit conversions
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csspec/html/vclrfcsharpspec_6_4.asp>
> 
> This didn't work (wasn't called at all when it should):
> <snip>
> public static implicit operator string(ConfigurationItem item)
> {
> 	return item.Value;
> }
> </snip>
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