Date parsed: 02/04/2008 13:08:32
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:08:32 -0400

I hope this is the right place for this question - I haven't found
any other group whose name even vaguely would seem likely
as a place to ask this question.

I'm working on a (VS2008) VB program. It is likely that any
number of people might be able to access the program but I
wish to control what (specifically) they can do by using their
membership in either a local or domain group.

VS2008 makes available the "IsInRole" construct which when
called returns a T/F if the current authenticated machine user
is a member of one of a set of local, domain, or global groups.

It is used as follows:

If My.User.IsInRole( _
ApplicationServices.BuiltInRole.Administrator ) Then
' Whatever code is to be executed...
End If

This works perfectly as long as the "role" is one of the VS2008
(and NT) standard groups - Administrator, BackUpOperator,
etc. Unfortunately, these doesn't seem to be any method/way
to specify a group which might be created for this purpose,
like "SiteCoordinator" or "SeniorMonitor."

Is anyone familiar with either how this construct can be used
to determine membership in a created group or of some other
method (preferably in VB) which can be called via a VB
program and determine whether an individual is a member of
a group - local, domain or global - or not?

Thanks.

David Schrader