>Hi All
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>I am trying to find a way to code GetObject() in WinDev but I am not sure how to do it. I want to access the user's login full name and description as per the help file - from VFP Help:
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>   * For example, on a network that has implemented Active Directory Services, 
>   * you can query the network for information on a particular user.
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>   *  Replace "DomainName" with the domain name, and "UserLoginID" with
>   * the login ID of the user you are looking up.
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>   oUser = GetObject("WinNT://DomainName/UserLoginID,user")
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>   ? oUser.FullName
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>I cant find a similar thing in WinDev although there are so many functions that it might be there but I just cant find it right now. Is GetObject() calling some sort of Windows API that I could call directly instead? Or is there another approach to getting this info (the user's full name and description) ?

The above code fails with an OLE error on a standalone Win7 machine (i.e. no AD), substituting the local machine name for the domain.

ISTR WMI can be used to get logon info. You can Google [wmi vfp], I think there have been threads here discussing how to access WMI, maybe even logon info.

Having said that, if WinDev is as mature as you've told us I can't imagine there would not be functions that do this for you.