System.DirectoryServices is poorly-documented, lazily implemented, and fundamentally broken. Those responsible for it should be taken out and beaten soundly with a phone book.

[Shog9 0]

...and i'm having A Bad Day. What is the point of throwing exceptions on a method designed only to test the validity of its input? Or providing an enumerator that tries (and then fails) to pre-cache the data it is designed to enumerate over? Bah. Yet another leaky abstraction turning the annoying into the impossible.

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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

[Dan Neely]

Shog9 wrote:

Those responsible for it should be taken out and beaten soundly with a Large Urban phone book.

Fixed that for you. A half inch thick floppy semi rural one won't be of much use.

Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

[Shog9 0]

dan neely wrote:

A half inch thick floppy semi rural one won't be of much use.

Death by 1000 paper cuts? :-\

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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

[Rob Graham]

Shog9 wrote:

Death by 1000 paper cuts?

Isn't that the short description for the .NET Framework?

[Oakman]

Rob Graham wrote:

Isn't that the short description for the .NET Framework?

Microsoft considers it a small price for us to pay for them to have so thoroughly destroyed Borland as a competitor.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface