On May 6, 11:18 am, Matthew Pfluger
wrote:
Tom,

Thanks for your incredibly informative post. I appreciate the help. This
will be my first crack at a VBScript, and I appreciate the help. When you
say you tend to code in MSE, do you just create a new file and then export to
a *.vbs file? Can you offer any other references you use for VBS coding?

Thanks,
Matthew Pfluger

P.S. The late binding and strong variable type rules are disturbing...

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Concerning MSE, I tend to start with a .vbs file and open it in the
IDE, but you can do it the other way. The Intelli-sense doesn't kick
in until you provide a file type, so open a new project and
immediately save it to a .vbs file. Debugging in the IDE is a bit
problematic, because the script needs to run under the WSH host, which
the IDE does not support, AFAIK. I tend to just save the file and
then launch it from Explorer and deal with the syntax and runtime
errors as they pop up. But, that's me - I'm sure others link to the
script debugger and do it that way - its just that I've never stopped
to figure it out - I get along with the trial and error approach,
instead.

Relative to references for scripting, Mr. Alcatel has provided a good
cross reference in his response to ypur post. In addition there are
the items below:

Microsoft® Windows®2000 Scripting Guide (URL all one line)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scr...e/default.mspx

TechNet Script Center Sample Scripts (URL all one line)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...a-b8814fe2da5a

WSH 5.6 documentation download (URL all one line)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Tom Lavedas
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