I'm trying to get the Int64 value of a Directory Services object's "uSNChanged" value. Unfortunately, it is always coming back as a COM object of some kind. I've tried using casting to Int64, calling Int64.Parse(), and calling Convert.ToInt64(). None of these work.
For a given DirectoryEntry object, this code will display the properties:
private static void DisplaySelectedProperties(DirectoryEntry objADObject)
{
try
{
string[] properties = new string[] {
"displayName",
"whenCreated",
"whenChanged",
"uSNCreated",
"uSNChanged",
};
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("Displaying selected properties of {0}", objADObject.Path));
foreach (string strAttrName in properties)
{
foreach (var objAttrValue in objADObject.Properties[strAttrName])
{
string strAttrValue = objAttrValue.ToString();
Console.WriteLine(String.Format(" {0, -22} : {1}", strAttrName, strAttrValue));
}
}
Console.WriteLine();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw new ApplicationException(string.Format("Fatal error accessing: {0} - {1}", objADObject.Path, ex.Message), ex);
}
}
This is the output:
Displaying selected properties of LDAP://server/o=org/cn=obj displayName : Display Name whenCreated : 7/8/2009 7:29:02 PM whenChanged : 7/8/2009 10:42:23 PM uSNCreated : System.__ComObject uSNChanged : System.__ComObject
How do I convert that System.__ComObject into a Int64?
This is the solution I used based on marc_s's solution below:
public static Int64 ConvertADSLargeIntegerToInt64(object adsLargeInteger)
{
var highPart = (Int32)adsLargeInteger.GetType().InvokeMember("HighPart", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, adsLargeInteger, null);
var lowPart = (Int32)adsLargeInteger.GetType().InvokeMember("LowPart", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.GetProperty, null, adsLargeInteger, null);
return highPart * ((Int64)UInt32.MaxValue + 1) + lowPart;
}
I'm using this snippet of code in my ADSI Browser BeaverTail which is written in C#:
Int64 iLargeInt = 0;
IADsLargeInteger int64Val = (IADsLargeInteger)oPropValue.LargeInteger;
iLargeInt = int64Val.HighPart * 4294967296 + int64Val.LowPart;
As far as I can tell, this should work just fine.
Marc