Utils.FindMVEntries Method

Article
02/16/2009

The FindMVEntries (String, Value, String) method is a static method that retrieves the metaverse entries with the specified attribute value in the specified collation order.

Syntax

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

Public Function FindMVEntries( _
  ByVal attributeName As String, _
  ByVal value As Value, _
  ByVal collationOrder As String _
) As MVEntry[]

Parameters

attributeName
Contains the name of the metaverse attribute to retrieve.
value
Contains a Value object the contains the value 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
ArgumentNullException	The attributeName or value parameter is null.
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 InvalidOperationException exception and the management agent run profile will stop with a status of stopped-extension-dll-exception if called from the following methods:

The rules extension object constructor
The IMASynchronization.Initialize method
The IMASynchronization.Terminate method
The IMVSynchronization.Initialize method
The IMVSynchronization.Terminate method

Requirements

Product	ILM 2007 FP1
Namespace	Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices
Assembly	Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices
.NET Framework	.NET Framework 2.0