Using ldp.exe to work with AD

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I'm getting a few questions from my post on using the AD Membership provider in ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2, so I thought I'd share a little more info. Specifically, one of the suggestions from the dev team that was very helpful in overcoming my inexperience with AD was a utility called ldp.exe, which allowed me to verify that I could log into and query the target Active Directory container separate from my application code. It also gave me a good view of some of the connection syntax, which helped me piece together what I was doing wrong. The ldp.exe utility is described in the following KB article

https://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224543

If you're having trouble with coding against AD, it might help you work out where your issues are.