Insider Power Techniques for Microsoft® Windows® XP

Programming Objects

Although this chapter isn’t a programming primer per se, we’d like to take some time now to run through a few quick notes about programming objects. This will serve you well throughout the rest of the chapter as we take you on a tour of a few Windows Script Host objects.

Note

If you’re new to VBScript, see the following MSDN site for some language tutorials:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/vbstutor.asp

The following MSDN site has a VBScript language reference:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/script56/html/vbscripttoc.asp

The dictionary definition of an object is "anything perceptible by one or more of the senses, especially something that can be seen and felt." In scripting, an object is an application ...