directoryentry

I'm connecting to a LDAP directory in C#, so I've used the DirectoryEntry class. When you do the "new DirectoryEntry" with address, login, and password it is supposed to connect to the LDAP directory. However, even if the connection didn't work, it returns without problem, and the directoryentry variable is set. So i do i know my connection is really opened ? Right now, I'm using a very very ugly hack : i put a "if(mydirectory.SchemaEntry)" which generates an exception if the connection wasn't etablished, because some of the members of the DirectoryEntry, such as SchemaEntry, aren't set if the

I have a directory which contains several files, many of which has non-english name. I am using PHP in Windows 7. I want to list the filename and their content using PHP. Currently I am using DirectoryIterator and file_get_contents . This works for English files names but not for non-English (chinese) file names. For example, I have filenames like "एक और प्रोब्लेम.eml", "hello 鶨鶖鵨鶣鎹鎣.eml". DirectoryIterator is not able to get the filename using ->getFilename() file_get_contents is also not able to open even if I hard code the filename in its parameter. How can I do it? Artefacto This is not