Using VB.NET
Since the majority of
the code we’ve demonstrated so far in this book has
been written in VBScript, you may be wondering why we are going to
talk about Visual Basic.NET (VB.NET). Unfortunately, one of the
drawbacks with the .NET Framework is that it currently does not
provide native support for VBScript. It does support JScript, but
since Visual Basic is a much more powerful language than JScript, we
will use VB.NET in our examples. It is still unclear what
Microsoft’s future direction is in regard to
providing native support for scripting languages like VBScript in
.NET. Until that happens, you should get more familiar with the .NET
class library and gain some experience with Visual Basic, which will
ultimately increase your capabilities as a programmer. As we
mentioned earlier, one of the design goals for the .NET Framework was
simplicity. With the .NET Framework class library, Microsoft has made
developing Windows-based applications significantly easier. As far as
Active Directory goes, it will not take long at all to map your ADSI
knowledge to the classes, properties, and methods in the
System.DirectoryServices
namespace.
To get started using VB.NET, you’ll need to get an integrated development environment (IDE) such as Visual Studio.NET (VS.NET), which is available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/. Once you have VS.NET, you should download the latest .NET Framework SDK, which is available from http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/. Once you have both of ...
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