Question

Can anyone provide an example of how to loop through a System.DirectoryServices.PropertyCollection and output the property name and value?

I am using C#.

@JaredPar – The PropertyCollection does not have a Name/Value property. It does have a PropertyNames and Values, type System.Collection.ICollection. I do not know the basline object type that makes up the PropertyCollection object.

@JaredPar again – I originally mislabeled the question with the wrong type. That was my bad.

Update: Based on Zhaph – Ben Duguid input, I was able to develop the following code.

using System.Collections; using System.DirectoryServices;  public void DisplayValue(DirectoryEntry de) {     if(de.Children != null)     {         foreach(DirectoryEntry child in de.Children)         {             PropertyCollection pc = child.Properties;             IDictionaryEnumerator ide = pc.GetEnumerator();             ide.Reset();             while(ide.MoveNext())             {                 PropertyValueCollection pvc = ide.Entry.Value as PropertyValueCollection;                  Console.WriteLine(string.Format('Name: {0}', ide.Entry.Key.ToString()));                 Console.WriteLine(string.Format('Value: {0}', pvc.Value));                             }         }           }   } 

Answer 1

The PropertyCollection has a PropertyName collection – which is a collection of strings (see PropertyCollection.Contains and PropertyCollection.Item both of which take a string).

You can usually call GetEnumerator to allow you to enumerate over the collection, using the usual enumeration methods – in this case you’d get an IDictionary containing the string key, and then an object for each item/values.