Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Programming VBScript

Programs written in VBScript—or in pretty much any other language, for that matter—are hierarchical structures. A fully-fledged VBScript program is built from a number of smaller units, each of which is written to accomplish a specific part of the overall task. These smaller units are built from even smaller ones, and so on until the very lowest level is reached: the units provided by VBScript itself. The large-scale, high-level units are designed to carry out highly specific tasks. To accomplish this, they make heavy use of a number of smaller units. In contrast, the smaller units are more generic. They do less but can be used in more situations.

For example, consider a VBScript program designed to produce a set of lottery ...