Unknown exception (0×8000500) when querying LDAP in .NET


I had a colleague that kept getting errors doing their LDAP queries. I realized that most developers don’t know about the sticky gotcha with the LDAP. Your url has to have the LDAP capitalized. Crazy right?

So your query string:

ldap://ldapServer:1000/ou=internal,ou=people,dc=yours,dc=com

should be

LDAP://ldapServer:1000/ou=internal,ou=people,dc=yours,dc=com

Nice gotcha, right?

Happy Coding!

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