Finds the Groups for this User Account

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06/24/2008

The GetGroups method returns all the groups that the user belongs to. The groups that the user belongs to are added to the collection using Add method. The collection of groups is returned by this method.

        internal static ArrayList FindGroupsOfUser(string user)
        {
            // Creating the PrincipalContext
            PrincipalContext principalContext = null;
            try
            {
                principalContext = new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, "fabrikam", "DC=fabrikam,DC=com");
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("Failed to create PrincipalContext. Exception: " + e);
                Application.Exit();
            }

            ArrayList groups = null;
            UserPrincipal userPrincipal = UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(principalContext, user);
            if (userPrincipal != null)
            {
                PrincipalSearchResult<Principal> groupPrincipals = userPrincipal.GetGroups(principalContext);
                if (groupPrincipals != null)
                {
                    groups = new ArrayList();
                    foreach (GroupPrincipal group in groupPrincipals)
                        groups.Add(group.Name);
                }
            }

            return groups;
        }

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