Microsoft® PowerShell, VBScript and JScript® Bible

Chapter 6. VBScript and JScript Scripting Basics

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Displaying text strings

• Examining script information

• Accessing environment variables

• Running programs from within scripts

• Combining JScript and VBScript

Now that you know a bit about creating script files and running scripts, you are ready to start working with the features Windows Script Host has to offer. You'll find that WSH structures are surprisingly powerful. You can perform many advanced tasks with only a few basic commands.

Key WSH Objects

As you learned in Chapter 1, the WSH object model contains exposed and unexposed objects. Exposed objects are the ones you can access directly in your scripts and include WScript, WScript.WshNetwork, and WScript.WshShell. In this chapter, you work with basic methods and properties of each of these objects.

Table 6-1 lists the methods and properties of WScript.

Table 6.1. WScript Methods and Properties

Methods	Properties
CreateObject	Application
DisconnectObject	Arguments
Echo	FullName
GetObject	Name
Quit	Path
Sleep	ScriptFullName
	ScriptName
	Version

WScript.WshNetwork is the object you'll use to manage network resources such as printers and network drives. The methods and properties of this object are listed in Table 6-2.

Table 6.2. WScript.WshNetwork Methods and Properties

Methods	Properties
AddPrinterConnection	ComputerName
EnumNetworkDrives	UserDomain
EnumPrinterConnection	UserName
MapNetworkDrive
RemoveNetworkDrive
RemovePrinterConnection
SetDefaultPrinter

Another important object is WScript.WshShell. You'll ...