Customer Reviews

Inside Vbscript and Activex

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The book doesn't cover any of the added features of VBScript v2 and above. The book covers the VBScript that came out with Internet Explorer 3.0. Although the VBScript 1.0 features that are covered are covered well, the many added functions added in VBScript v2 are missing, such as constants, private and public variables, automatic string joining and splitting into arrays, and much more. The features not covered work in Internet Explorer v4.0+ and Outlook 98 (which come with VBScript v3.0+)

I thought this was a pretty good introduction to VBScript. It had several good examples and explanations. It was a lot more practical and informative than most of the other books I looked at.

I was looking for a book that would teach me VBscript. (I have some programming experience.) Though I learned quite a bit from this book, many explanations needed to be more complete and left me to figure them out by experimenting. Not a good reference - no index of commands (most, but not all, are covered in general index in back).

I work for Microsoft, and use VBScript daily. I have a dozen or so books that I used to reference while doing web design. Now I have everything I need in one book. While most books try to cover it all, this book gives a brief overview and then gets right to the meat of the subject. If you are a complete beginner try another source. For everyone else, this is it!