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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
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Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

by Matthew M. Lavy, Ashley J. Meggitt
October 2001
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
11h 42m
English
Sams
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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 ...

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