Tag Archives: VB.NET

Windows service management using WMI

Posted on 09/26/2009 by thisiscmt

After reading this post at StackOverflow, I realized that I was probably wrong to think it was OK to directly access the registry keys that Windows uses to keep track of installed services. Though the names and locations of the … Continue reading →

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An easy way to update DNN modules from another app

Posted on 09/03/2009 by thisiscmt

My thanks go out to Mitchel Sellers for informing me that DotNetNuke has a bulk install feature. I had a need to modify an existing Windows service so it could silently update some DNN modules. I was able to make … Continue reading →

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LDAP queries

Posted on 08/08/2009 by thisiscmt

A recent project of mine required querying Active Directory for all the groups in which a given user is a member, or if there isn’t a domain then searching the local machine. It also had to return all groups defined … Continue reading →

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