Determine if a user belongs to a particular AD Group

This is the easiest way to determine if a user belongs to particular Active Directory user group using VB.NET without having to enumerate through all the user’s groups.

Public Function IsInGroup(ByVal GroupName As String) As Boolean
 Dim MyIdentity As System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity = System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent()
 Dim MyPrincipal As System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal = New System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal(MyIdentity)
 Return MyPrincipal.IsInRole(GroupName)
End Function