Vbscript Programmer's Reference [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes (Author), Kathie Kingsley-Hughes (Author), Paul Wilton (Author), Brian Francis (Author), Brian Matsik (Author), Erick Nelson (Author), Piotr Prussak (Author), Dan Read (Author), Carsten Thomsen (Author), Stuart Updegrave (Author), Antonio De Donatis (Author), Susanne Clark (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
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.

From the Publisher
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.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 850 pages
• Publisher: Wrox Press; 1 edition (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1861002718
• ISBN-13: 978-1861002716
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #977,516 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

175 of 178 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VBScript Programmer's Reference, November 29, 1999

By	Gary Merkel (Newark, Delaware) - See all my reviews

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:

5.0 out of 5 stars Far more than a reference, January 16, 2000

By	gordon fairbrother (London) - See all my reviews

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.

42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VBscript Programmer's Reference delivers the goods, September 12, 2000

By	Martin L. Devore "mldevore" (Humble, Texas USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!