VBScript is a Microsoft scripting language. It is useful both on client-side and server-side web programming, making it the primary language for programming ASP, and it can be used to program the new Microsoft Windows Script Host. The language itself has been gradually increasing in power and flexibility, and the newest release, VBScript 5.0 - which comes with IE5.0 and can be downloaded for IE3 and 4, or other hosts - represents a huge increase in functionality and usefulness.
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This book will not only serve as a reference guide to the VBScript language and syntax, but will also demonstrate its usage in context with many practical examples. It is ideal for anyone who uses VBScript as a programming language. It is a desktop reference and quick guide for ASP programmers, IE programmers and Windows Script Host programmers.
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VBScript is one of Microsoft’s scripting languages, which can be employed in a variety of ways — from client-side scripting in Internet Explorer to server-side programming in ASP and the new Microsoft® Windows® Script Host. The language itself has been gradually increasing in power and flexibility, and the newest release, VBScript 5.0 (which comes with IE5.0), represents a huge increase in functionality and effectiveness.
Who is this book for?
This book will be useful for anyone who wishes to get to grips with VBScript. Whether you've just played around with HTML and want to find out about the world of programming, or whether you're an experienced programmer who needs to learn the VBScript language in order to work with the Windows Script Host or develop ASP pages, this book will show you the way. No prior knowledge of programming is assumed.
What does this book cover?
- Complete guide to the VBScript language and its syntax
- Up-to-date details of the most recent scripting engines for Internet Explorer®, ASP and the Windows Script Host
- All the new features in VBScript 5, including constructing classes, DCOM support, and using regular expressions
- The use of VBScript in context with various technologies, including WSH, ASP, ADO, DHTML and VB
- Extensive reference covering the various implementations and the relevant object models
As an experienced developer, you need to get the facts on a new technology fast. Without the marketing hype, without the trivial introduction. That’s what Wrox Programmer’s References deliver. Hard facts on the newest technologies with practical examples of how to apply new tools to your development projects today. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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174 of 177 people found the following review helpful:
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VBScript Programmer's Reference,
This review is from: VBScript Programmers Reference (Paperback)
I am not normally a fan of multi-author text books. Unless they are very carefully edited, you wind up getting beat up with words, hearing 3 or 4 different renditions of the same material.But I found "VBScript Programmer's Reference to be a useful book. I appreciated the section on Remote Scripting, which I put to good use in an intranet (MSIE5) web development project. Anyone getting started in web development will find a maze of rapidly emerging software technologies to sort through. I encountered two problems that I simply did not know how to address. So I e-mailed a few of the authors of the text, hoping to get a reply. To my surprise and delight, each one responded to my request and got me moving forward! I know that WROX cannot promise this kind of followup from all authors for all of its texts, but the folks who wrote VBScript are good guys who want to help. For the book and the remarkable followup they deserve at least 5-stars.
49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:
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Far more than a reference,
By gordon fairbrother (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: VBScript Programmers Reference (Paperback)
This is far more than the standard reference book I'm used to. This is a tome of immeasurable quality. I was expecting a dry and cold text that I would refer to occassionaly; instead I got an excellent tutorial. The first 4 chapters define all the basics, and then there follow chapters on WSH, HTA's, COM, ADO, and many other topics that I wouldn't expect a reference book to cover. The book also has 12 appendix chapters which go far beyond my expectations. All-in-all a very thorough, well written and reasonably priced book.
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In this day and age, finding good CURRENT books on VBScript is becoming more and more of a holy quest. In the last year, only two come to mind: this book by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes et al (Oct. 99) and VBScript in a Nutshell by Paul Lomax (April 2000).Well, I have both of these books. They are both very very good and both are very deserving of their overall high ratings. Even so, I find myself using the VBScript Programmer's Reference a bit more than the other book. It is very comprehensive, very clear and I find myself having to pull it off the shelf time and time again. It's that good. So, VBScripters out there, I recommend that if you only have enough money for two books on VBScript, purchase VBScript Programmer's Reference and VBScript in a Nutshell. I recommend that you buy VBScript Programmer's Reference first!
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The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to, overview of, and reference for: The VBScript 5 language Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
implicit type coercion, remote scripting, retaining commit, altering the column, script components, string subtype, current record pointer, script host, wscript object, window onload, scripting files, script engine, dictionary object, end function function, ect function, following sample shows, host document, matches collection, web scripting, step keyword, script debugger, folder object, variant variable, following dialog box, runtime objects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visual Basic, Property Let, Internet Explorer, Windows Script Host, Property Get, Error Resume Next, Active Server Pages, Name Description, Windows Script Components, Private Sub, Script Component Wizard, Microsoft Visual, Hello World, Public Function, Class Terminate, Option Explicit Dim, Temporary Value, Else Greeting, Program Files, Close Set, Data Objects, Internet Information Server, Loop While, Microsoft Transaction Server, Dim Greeting Dim New!
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The aim of this book is to provide an introduction to, overview of, and reference for: The VBScript 5 language Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
implicit type coercion, remote scripting, retaining commit, altering the column, script components, string subtype, current record pointer, script host, wscript object, window onload, scripting files, script engine, dictionary object, end function function, ect function, following sample shows, host document, matches collection, web scripting, step keyword, script debugger, folder object, variant variable, following dialog box, runtime objects Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Visual Basic, Property Let, Internet Explorer, Windows Script Host, Property Get, Error Resume Next, Active Server Pages, Name Description, Windows Script Components, Private Sub, Script Component Wizard, Microsoft Visual, Hello World, Public Function, Class Terminate, Option Explicit Dim, Temporary Value, Else Greeting, Program Files, Close Set, Data Objects, Internet Information Server, Loop While, Microsoft Transaction Server, Dim Greeting Dim New!
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- Code Complete (Microsoft Programming Series) by Steve McConnell on page 10, page 15, and page 118
- Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules by Steve McConnell on page 16
- Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) by Jon Bentley on page 16
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks on page 16
- The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition by Gerald M. Weinberg on page 16
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