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Managing Quota Entries in C# and DiskQuotaTypeLibrary

By , 21 Jun 2004
 

Introduction

I was developing a platform for an ISP, and I needed to create a library to manage the quota entries of the users. We have decided to use the Windows quota management, that is considerably better in Windows 2003. I had lots of problems trying to find something that worked, so I decided to post the library completely done and working, and so, here it is for everyone that needs this. If you have any comments or something to add, or possible bugs, just email me...

Code Listing

using System;

using DiskQuotaTypeLibrary;

namespace Ex3cut3.Libraries
{
    /// <summary>
    ///
    /// </summary>
    public class QuotaClass
    {
        private DiskQuotaControlClass _diskQuotaControl;

        //This path has to be in this format or 
        //else is going to give an error of invalid path
        private const string FILESHAREVOLUME = @"\\server\c$\";
        private const int MBTOBYTES = 1048576;

        public DiskQuotaControlClass DiskQuotaControl
        {
            get
            {
                if(this._diskQuotaControl == null)
                {
                    this._diskQuotaControl = new DiskQuotaControlClass();
                    //Initializes the control to the specified path
                    this._diskQuotaControl.Initialize(FILESHAREVOLUME, true);
                }
                return this._diskQuotaControl;
            }
        }

        public QuotaClass()
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Adds a user to the quota entries of the volume
        /// </summary>
        /// <PARAM name="userName">The name of the user to Add</PARAM>
        /// <PARAM name="userDomain">The domain that the user uses to logon</PARAM>
        /// <PARAM name="quotaLimit">The quota limit of this user</PARAM>
        public void Add(string userName, string userDomain, int quotaLimit)
        {
            DIDiskQuotaUser dskuser = null;
            //In some cases if you use name resolution, 
            //the application will give an error.
            this.DiskQuotaControl.UserNameResolution = 
              UserNameResolutionConstants.dqResolveNone;
            //Here we had the user to the Quotas Entrys of 
            //the volume, we use user@domain.net the logon name of the user.
            //You can use the domain\user or just the user, 
            //but this works faster
            dskuser = this.DiskQuotaControl.AddUser(
              user.SAMAccountName + "@" + user.Domain);
            //here we set the limit of the quota, this is 
            //prepared to receive MB so i convert it to BYTES
            dskuser.QuotaLimit = (int)quotaLimit * MBTOBYTES;
            //here is the set of the warning limit
            dskuser.QuotaThreshold = (int)(quotaLimit / 1.2) * MBTOBYTES;
            dskuser = null;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Removes the user form the Quota Entries List
        /// </summary>
        /// <PARAM name="userName"></PARAM>
        public void Remove(string userName)
        {
            //Here we just use the user, and invoke 
            //the method DeleteUser from the control
            this.DiskQuotaControl.DeleteUser(this.GetUser(userName));
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// A private function to return the user object
        /// </summary>
        /// <PARAM name="userName">The user name</PARAM>
        /// <returns>A DIDiskQuotaUser Object 
        /// of the specified user</returns>
        private DIDiskQuotaUser GetUser(string userName)
        {
            //Invokes the method to find a user in a quota entry list
            return this.DiskQuotaControl.FindUser(userName);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the quota of the user
        /// </summary>
        /// <PARAM name="userName">The user name</PARAM>
        /// <returns>A formatted string of the quota 
        /// limit of the user</returns>
        private string GetQuota(string userName)
        {
            //here we return the text of the quota limit
            //0.0 bytes, 0.0 Kb, 0.0 Mb etc
            return this.GetUser(userName).QuotaLimitText;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Gets the quota currently used by the user
        /// </summary>
        /// <PARAM name="userName">The user name </PARAM>
        /// <returns>A formatted string of the quota 
        /// used by the user</returns>
        private string GetQuotaUsed(string userName)
        {
            return this.GetUser(userName).QuotaUsedText;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Change the quota of a specified user
        /// </summary>
        /// <PARAM name="userName">The user name</PARAM>
        /// <PARAM name="quotaLimit">The new quota limit of the user</PARAM>
        private void ChangeQuota(string userName, int quotaLimit)
        {
            DIDiskQuotaUser dskuser = this.GetUser(userName);
            dskuser.QuotaLimit = quotaLimit * Support.Constants.CONVERTBTOMB;
            dskuser.QuotaThreshold = (quotaLimit / 1.2) 
              * Support.Constants.CONVERTBTOMB;
        }
    }
}

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

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Questioninvalid pathmemberMember 846946623 Oct '12 - 4:02 
Generalthanks! works like a charm!membertomtom19803 Aug '10 - 0:49 
even though the article is rather dated its still a far easier and better performing alternative to the IFsrmQuotaManager Interface, although being not purely managed code but COM-Interop.
GeneralSome correctionsmemberdazipe20 Feb '09 - 14:59 
GeneralRe: Some correctionsmembertomtom19808 Aug '10 - 22:34 
GeneralServer 2003 R2memberphsteele26 Oct '07 - 6:52 
Generalplease help me for use this application in vb.net and solve the error The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007B)memberram krishna pattnayak19 Jun '07 - 4:52 
QuestionQuery Information as non-admin?sussxNMDANGEx7 Aug '05 - 15:43 
GeneralError in this articlemembersreedhar.prudhvi20 Jun '04 - 21:16 
GeneralRe: Error in this articlememberFeyd-Rauth16 Mar '05 - 12:56 
GeneralError in this articlemembersreedhar.prudhvi20 Jun '04 - 21:15 

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