Windows Script Host Programmer's Reference

Dino Esposito

ISBN 10: 1861002653 / ISBN 13: 9781861002655

Published by Peer Information Inc. (edition 1st), 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Windows Script Host Programmer's Reference
• Publisher: Peer Information Inc. (edition 1st)
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861002653
• ISBN 13: 9781861002655
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

The Windows Script Host (WSH) is Microsoft's response to the need for a way of programming Windows in a manner analogous to the way batch files can be used to automate jobs in MS-DOS. Rather as Office 2000 provides VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as a development tool, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 contain the Windows Script Host.

WSH enables you to use scripting languages - VBScript and JScript are available by default - to access the Windows shell directly. As well as providing facilities of its own for tasks including shortcut management and registry manipulation, WSH enables the use of any Automation-compatible COM object. In other words, a script can be created with a simple text editor like Notepad, and used to control any process for which an object model exists.

About the Author

Gunter Born has over 20 years industry experience as a software developer and project manager. He has also written several books for MS Press, Prentice Hall and International Thomson Computer Press. He writes both in English and in his native language, German.