VB2008 Program Athenticating With Vbulletin

[cheech47]

Im trying to write an external Visual Basic 2008 application that will query my vbulletin database.
What i am trying to achieve is for the Visual Basic 2008 app to have a login and password textbox.
when the user enters their vBulletin username and password here it validates that the password is correct by quering my vBulletin database and the result i need back from the query is the usergroup ID.

Does anyone have some visual basic code that woulld achieve the above?

Thanks

[Cipher5]

I am needing this code as well, I have written a program and so far it works but I can't authenticate the users password with the MD5 hash and salt. I had to make a custom profile field to read the password from for now. The bad part is the user has to enter their password there for it to work.

BUMP,

How to authenticate user passwords in vb.net

Thanks