Chapter 35. Creating Basic Visual Basic Scripts

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

• Working with filesystemobject

• Accessing a network share with filesystemobject

• Calling scripts from a batch file

• Displaying a message box with a Visual Basic script

• Using if statements

• Checking for a value with a message box

Tip

You should be familiar with the concept of Visual Basic scripting when preparing for the 70-640, 70-642, and 70-647 exams.

Working with filesystemobject

Visual Basic (VB) script has access to many precompiled objects. These objects give you access to advanced capabilities through the scripting language without having to program the underlying code.

Objects have properties and methods ...

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