Can't add property of Active Directory user to DropDownList

[marcasii]

Hi, I am trying to do this using C#:

myDropDownList.Items.Add(new ListItem(res.Properties["Name"][0],res.Properties["samaccountname"][0]));

but it is giving an error saying: "The best overloaded method match for 'System.Web.UI.WebControls.ListItem.ListItem(string, string)' has some invalid arguments"

I have also tried:

string a = res.Properties["Name"][0];

but it says: "cannot convert type object to string"

I retrieved the object type using GetType() and it says it is a System.String!!!

Any ideas why this is not working???

 

[tgreer]

I'm not familiar with that construction... with two brackets back-to-back. It looks odd:

res.Properties["Name"][0]

Are you sure that's right?



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[marcasii]

Yes. I can do this:

Response.Write(res.Properties["Name"][0];)

 

[DaZZleD]

what about

string a = res.Properties["Name"][0].ToString();

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[marcasii]

Ordinarily yes but the problem I was getting was to do with the "Name" property not existing for some entries. Thanks for the posts.