Registering change notification with Active Directory using C#

Question

This link http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa772153(VS.85).aspx says:

You can register up to five notification requests on a single LDAP connection. You must have a dedicated thread that waits for the notifications and processes them quickly. When you call the ldap_search_ext function to register a notification request, the function returns a message identifier that identifies that request. You then use the ldap_result function to wait for change notifications. When a change occurs, the server sends you an LDAP message that contains the message identifier for the notification request that generated the notification. This causes the ldap_result function to return with search results that identify the object that changed.

I cannot find a similar behavior looking through the .NET documentation. If anyone knows how to do this in C# I'd be very grateful to know. I'm looking to see when attributes change on all the users in the system so I can perform custom actions depending on what changed.

I've looked through stackoverflow and other sources with no luck.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I'm not sure it does what you need, but have a look at http://dunnry.com/blog/ImplementingChangeNotificationsInNET.aspx