SQL 2008 (10) Not Supported vb.net Commands

I have a vb.net app designed to automaticlly deploy table/stored procedure scripts to a designated SQL Server 2000 database  that worked great with SQL 2000 but now gives the following error message when trying to run on SQL Server 2008:

This SQL Server version (10 0) is not supported

The code is:

Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo

Dim server As New Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ServerConnection(connection)

Me.CurrentTask.Text = reader(0).ToString

strFileContents = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText(reader(0).ToString)
             
server.ExecuteNonQuery(strFileContents)

It gives the error on the line above at: server.ExecuteNonQuery(strFileContents)

I've tried to do searches; but haven't found any solution that seems to work - please let me know if I've overlooked the solution here.

Thanks for any help.