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Windows Script Host

In the last decade or so, Microsoft has worked diligently to provide ways for programmers to gain access to the internal functions of commercial applications like Word and Excel and of Windows itself. The approach is based on a technology called the Common Object Model, or COM, which lets a properly designed program share its data and its functional capabilities with other programs—any other programs, written in any other programming languages. If you've ever written macros for Word or Excel, you've worked with scripting and COM. One product of these efforts is Windows Script Host, or WSH, which provides a fast and easy way to write your own management and utility programs.

How WSH Works

The Windows Script Host program itself ...