Articles filed in category 'VB Script'

  • The Windows Scripting Host
    John Petersen introduces the Windows Scripting Host (WSH) as a powerful, language‑independent scripting engine (VBScript/JScript) that exposes Windows Shell and network functionality via COM objects, enabling tasks—registry edits, desktop shortcuts, launching programs, mapping drives, and printer management—previously requiring complex APIs or third‑party DLLs. He explains WSH’s core objects and methods with examples, shows how to run and debug scripts, and urges Visual ...See More
  • XML, XSL and HTML in Windows Applications
    HTML and XML have made the Internet what it is today, but both technologies are not necessarily tied to the Internet.Quite the contrary! Using HTML in regular Windows applications has always been a great alternative. Paired with XML and XSL, this technique is more powerful than ever, since there are a growing number of XML sources, such as SQL Server, Web Services, and XML-enabled Business Objects.