March 2001
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
14h 8m
English
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Further Study
Given that writing scripts for the Windows Script Host is a language-dependent endeavor, the most helpful reference material will be specific to the particular language you’re using. Microsoft’s support web site for all their scripting technologies, including WSH, can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting/. In addition to some limited documentation on VBScript and JScript, you can download updates to the WSH engine. Note that if you distribute scripts to other machines, you’ll need to be careful of supporting features found only in newer releases of WSH.
Before committing to VBScript for a project, you may want to do some
research on other supported languages listed here. Due to
VBScript’s heritage in web pages, security concerns have
resulted in some limitations in the VBScript language, such as its
inability to access the clipboard or link to external
.dll files.
Given that JavaScript (which actually has nothing whatsoever to do with Sun Microsystems’ Java™ programming language) was created by Netscape, you can find a lot of developer information at: http://developer.netscape.com/tech/javascript/.
The Practical Extract and Report Language (Perl) is probably the most powerful and flexible scripting language available for the Windows Script Host at the time of this writing. It’s traditionally very popular among the Unix crowd and has gained tremendous popularity for its use in writing CGI programs for web servers.
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