Create an instance of DirectoryEntry for use in the test.

Question

I am trying to create a DirectoryEntry instance to use it to test the code that DirectoryEntry will pass. However, despite many attempts, I cannot find a way to create an instance of DE and initialize its PropertyCollection.

I have the following code that was taken and modified from another answer on SO that was executing the same process but for a SearchResult object. Apparently, the Add method is completely disabled, and I cannot find a way to call the PropertyCollection constructor to pass some properties.

using System.Collections;
using System.DirectoryServices;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.Serialization;

public static class DirectoryEntryFactory
{
    const BindingFlags nonPublicInstance = BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance;
    const BindingFlags publicInstance = BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance;

    public static DirectoryEntry Construct<T>(T anonInstance)
    {
        var e = GetUninitializedObject<DirectoryEntry>();

        SetPropertiesField(e);

        var dictionary = (IDictionary)e.Properties;
        var type = typeof(T);
        var propertyInfos = type.GetProperties(publicInstance);

        foreach (var propertyInfo in propertyInfos)
        {
            var value = propertyInfo.GetValue(anonInstance, null);
            var valueCollection = GetUninitializedObject<PropertyValueCollection>();
            var innerList = GetInnerList(valueCollection);
            innerList.Add(value);

            var lowerKey = propertyInfo.Name.ToLower(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

            // These both throw exceptions saying you can't add to a PropertyCollection
            //(typeof(PropertyCollection)).InvokeMember("System.Collections.IDictionary.Add", nonPublicInstance | BindingFlags.InvokeMethod, null, dictionary, new object[] { propertyInfo.Name, value });
            //dictionary.Add(lowerKey, propertyCollection);
        }

        return e;
    }

    private static ArrayList GetInnerList(object propertyCollection)
    {
        var propertyInfo = typeof(PropertyValueCollection).GetProperty("InnerList", nonPublicInstance);
        return (ArrayList)propertyInfo.GetValue(propertyCollection, null);
    }

    private static void SetPropertiesField(DirectoryEntry e)
    {
        var propertiesField = typeof(DirectoryEntry).GetField("propertyCollection", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
        propertiesField.SetValue(e, GetUninitializedObject<PropertyCollection>());
    }

    private static T GetUninitializedObject<T>()
    {
        return (T)FormatterServices.GetUninitializedObject(typeof(T));
    }
}

is used

DirectoryEntry e = DirectoryEntryFactory.Construct(new { attr1 = "Hello", attr2 = "World"});

I hope I missed something because I am pretty new to reflecting in anger.

Answer 1

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FileInfoAdapter:

public class FileInfoAdapter : IFileInfo
{
    private readonly FileSystemInfo _fi;

    public FileInfoAdapter(string fileName)
        : this(new FileInfo(fileName))
    { }

    public FileInfoAdapter(FileSystemInfo fi)
    {
        _fi = fi;
    }

    public string Name { get { return _fi.Name; } }
    public string FullName { get { return _fi.FullName; } }
    public bool Exists { get { return _fi.Exists; } }
}