using System.IO.Compression;
using System.Text;
 
protected string Compress(string text)
{
    byte[] buffer = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(text);
    MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
    using (GZipStream zip = new GZipStream(ms, CompressionMode.Compress, true))
    {
        zip.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
    }
 
    ms.Position = 0;
    MemoryStream outStream = new MemoryStream();
 
    byte[] compressed = new byte[ms.Length];
    ms.Read(compressed, 0, compressed.Length);
 
    byte[] gzBuffer = new byte[compressed.Length + 4];
    System.Buffer.BlockCopy(compressed, 0, gzBuffer, 4, compressed.Length);
    System.Buffer.BlockCopy(BitConverter.GetBytes(buffer.Length), 0, gzBuffer, 0, 4);
    return Convert.ToBase64String(gzBuffer);
}
 
 
protected string Decompress(string compressedText)
{
    byte[] gzBuffer = Convert.FromBase64String(compressedText);
    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        int msgLength = BitConverter.ToInt32(gzBuffer, 0);
        ms.Write(gzBuffer, 4, gzBuffer.Length - 4);
 
        byte[] buffer = new byte[msgLength];
 
        ms.Position = 0;
        using (GZipStream zip = new GZipStream(ms, CompressionMode.Decompress))
        {
            zip.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
        }
 
        return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(buffer);
    }
}

    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
 
        // Show admin link if they have access to the admin directory. //
 
        hyperLinkAdmin.Visible = hasAccessToDir("admin");
    }
 
    protected bool hasAccessToDir(string dir)
    {
        return System.IO.Directory.Exists(MapPath(dir));
    }

    public string CreateADUser(string szUsername, string szDisplayName, string szFirstName, string szLastName, string szMiddleInitial, string szPhone, string szEmail, string szOrgUnit)
    {
        string szPassword = "fooBar_123";  //temp only.
        string szCNName = "CN=" + szUsername;
 
        try
        {
            DirectoryEntry objContainer = new DirectoryEntry("LDAP://OU=mySubOU,OU=myMainOU,DC=KEVINCORNWELL,DC=com");
            DirectoryEntry objUser = objContainer.Children.Add(szCNName.ToLower(), "user");
            objUser.Properties["sAMAccountName"].Value = szUsername;
            objUser.Properties["userPrincipalName"].Value = szUsername + "@KEVINCORNWELL.COM";
            objUser.Properties["displayName"].Value = szDisplayName;
            objUser.Properties["GivenName"].Value = szFirstName;
            objUser.Properties["sn"].Value = szLastName;
            objUser.Properties["Initials"].Value = szMiddleInitial;
            objUser.Properties["mail"].Value = szEmail;
            objUser.Properties["TelephoneNumber"].Value = szPhone;
            objUser.Properties["Description"].Value = szOrgUnit;
            objUser.CommitChanges();
            objUser.Invoke("SetPassword", szPassword);
            objUser.CommitChanges();
            int flags = (int)objUser.Properties["userAccountControl"].Value;
            objUser.Properties["userAccountControl"].Value = flags & ~0x2;  //Enable User Account
            objUser.Properties["pwdLastSet"].Value = 0;
            objUser.CommitChanges();
            return "";
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            return ex.InnerException + ex.Message + ex.Source + ex.StackTrace + ex.Data;
        }
    }