Category: Scripting

Although Visual Basic has an extensive list of statements, methods, events, and procedures to help you create a Windows program quickly and easily, there are limitations within the development environment that may prevent you from implementing your ideas. One way to go beyond these limitations is to call the Windows API from within your Visual Basic project. At the heart of the Windows operating system are the functions that make up the Windows API. The majority of these functions are accessible from Visual Basic programs. The following topics are covered in this article: What is the Windows API? – A […]

 Programmatically accessing Active Directory (AD), the typical choice of API  Retrieving Large Results Sets from Active Directory  Searching with ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)  What Makes a Fast Query?

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