A VB.NET example to list computers in your domain

You can type the "net view" DOS command to get the list of computers or shared resources in your workgroup. If you want to achieve a similar thing in the code the following example can help.

Add System.DirectoryServices and System.Net references to your project and import them. The following code lists all "computers" in your domain.

Public Function GetComputers() As String
Dim result As String = ""

' Get the domin name
Dim ipproperties As NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties = NetworkInformation.IPGlobalProperties.GetIPGlobalProperties()
Dim domain As String = ipproperties.DomainName

Dim domainEntry As DirectoryEntry = New DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + domain)
domainEntry.Children.SchemaFilter.Add("computer")

For Each computer As DirectoryEntry In domainEntry.Children
    result = result & computer.Name & Environment.NewLine
Next

Return result

End Function

If you want to get the list of users instead of computers then change the line containing Add("computer") to Add("user").

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