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Utils.FindMVEntries Method (String, String, String)

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The FindMVEntries method is a static method that retrieves the metaverse entries in the specified collation order.

Namespace: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices
Assembly: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServicesEx (in Microsoft.MetadirectoryServicesEx.dll)

Usage

'Usage
Dim attributeName As String
Dim value As String
Dim collationOrder As String
Dim returnValue As MVEntry()

returnValue = Utils.FindMVEntries(attributeName, value, collationOrder)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Shared Function FindMVEntries ( _
    attributeName As String, _
    value As String, _
    collationOrder As String _
) As MVEntry()

public static MVEntry[] FindMVEntries (
    string attributeName,
    string value,
    string collationOrder
)

public:
static array<MVEntry^>^ FindMVEntries (
    String^ attributeName, 
    String^ value, 
    String^ collationOrder
)

public static MVEntry[] FindMVEntries (
    String attributeName, 
    String value, 
    String collationOrder
)

public static function FindMVEntries (
    attributeName : String, 
    value : String, 
    collationOrder : String
) : MVEntry[]

Parameters

  • attributeName
    Contains the name of the metaverse attribute to retrieve.
  • value
    Contains a string that the attribute identified by attributeName must contain.
  • collationOrder
    Contains a string that specifies the collation order. This string takes the form of the collation strings provided by the fn_helpcollations SQL function.

Return Value

Returns an array of MVEntry objects that represent the metaverse entries found in the search.

Exceptions

Exception type Condition
System.ArgumentNullException

The attributeName or value parameter is null.
System.InvalidOperationException

The value represented by the value parameter cannot be converted to the data type of the attribute identified by attributeName.

Remarks

This method will throw an System.InvalidOperationException exception and the management agent run profile will stop with a status of stopped-extension-dll-exception if called from the following methods:

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Platforms

Target Platforms

See Also

Reference

Utils Class
Utils Members
Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices Namespace
MVEntry Class