Active Directory Photo Toolkit

Installation

Installation is done via NuGet:

Install-Package ActiveDirectoryPhotoToolkit

Usage

Initial setup:

var activeDirectoryPhoto = new ActiveDirectoryPhoto();

Retrieve a users profile photo from Active Directory

var username = "ghuntley";
var format = ActiveDirectoryPhoto.Format.PNG;
var thumbnailPhoto = activeDirectoryPhoto.GetThumbnailPhoto(username, format);

Available formats are available in the ActiveDirectoryPhoto.Format enum.

 public enum Format
    {
        Bmp, 
        Gif, 
        Jpg, 
        Png
    };

Saving a retrieved user profile photo to disk in the same folder as the execution, after using the above sample

activeDirectoryPhoto.SaveThumbnailToDisk(thumbnailPhoto);

Saving a retrieved user to a specific folder, after using the retrieve a thumbnail example

activeDirectoryPhoto.SaveThumbnailToDisk(thumbnailPhoto, "C:\\");

Setting a users profile photo

var username = "ghuntley";
var photo = @"C:\photo.jpg";
activeDirectoryPhoto.SetThumbnailPhoto(username, photo);

Removing a users profile photo

var username = "ghuntley";
activeDirectoryPhoto.RemoveThumnnailPhoto(username);

Custom Exceptions

There are two custom exceptions currently which can be caught and handled however you like.

• PhotoResolutionInvalidException - Thrown when the image selected to upload is larger than 200x200px which is the limit set in Active Directory.
• PhotoTooLargeException - Thrown when the image selected is larger than 100kb, again this is a limit set in Acitve Directory.

With thanks to

• The icon "Man" designed by Simple Icons from The Noun Project.
• ghuntley for the initial work
• CaptainQwerty for aditional feature implmenation