Sorry for the delayed response.
 
Yes, all of my tools are written with Borland Builder C++ Pro, mostly version 5.0 but I am slowly converting to version 6.0
 
While I don't do it much, I find the RAD dev environment for unmanaged C++ completely missing in VS... mostly because it is. For some stupid reason MSFT only gives RAD GUI dev if you want to do NET and I am not even close to doing that. The funny thing is is that Borland has been doing it for over 10 years. They took what MSFT did with VB and applied it to Object Pascal (Delphi) and C++ (Borland Builder C++). Ditto for making services.... It doesn't make sense for me to use VS for non-GUI and BBC++PRO 6.0 for the GUI. Might as well use one that does both and doesn't require NET. If I want to do NET though BBC++PRO 6.0 supports that as well.  I would love to use VS as it would save me considerable money but I don't see them getting off the NET bandwagon until they just start getting wailed on for some reason or another. Not that I hate .NET mind you, I just don't like it for me and I have received too many emails from people telling me they would not like my tools as much and possibly stop using them if they were written in .NET. People like the idea that they can pick up one of my exes and just run it on pretty much any Windows machine without worrying if the proper framework components are in place.
 
As for the book recommendations....
 
I recommend two... The one in my signature below and the Active Directory CookBook.
 
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O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm 
 


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navroz Shariff
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:49 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ActiveDir] AD, LDAP, and _vbscript_

Dear group,
 
Can anyone recommend books or references regarding querying AD via LDAP using _vbscript_? I am a native C++ and JAVA programmer and am very interested in learning how one goes about doing that.
 
Joe, your set of tools from joeware-very handy set of tools thank you-were they written in C, C++? If so, do you use Borland or Studio.net to write and compile them?
 
Thank you,
 
-Shariff

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