The Novell Controls for ActiveX and Visual Basic:
Searching NDS Field Values

This article is the fourth in a series on Novell Directory Services (NDS) programming using Visual Basic and the Novell Controls for ActiveX. The last article ("The Novell Controls for ActiveX and Visual Basic: Reading Field Values" in the September 1999 issue of Novell Developer Notes) told how to read the value of NDS directory fields. This article tells how to search a directory for fields with a particular value (for example, to search for User entries with a Surname field of "Schmidt"). As always, I provide an example program to illustrate the technique.