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VBScript in a Nutshell
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VBScript in a Nutshell

by Matt Childs, Paul Lomax, Ron Petrusha
May 1995
Beginner
508 pages
16h 14m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Part I. The Basics

This section serves as a general introduction to VBScript, the scripting language that is commonly used in Active Server Pages, Outlook Forms, Windows Script Host scripts, and client-side scripts for Internet Explorer. Taken together, these chapters form an extremely fast-paced introduction to the most critical VBScript programming topics. If you’re an experienced programmer learning VBScript as a second (or additional) programming or scripting language, this materia l should help to familiarize you with VBScript in as short a time as possible.

In addition to its role as a tutorial, Chapter 3 is an essential reference to the data subtypes supported by VBScript.

Part I consists of the following chapters:

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