VBScript, or Visual Basic Scripting, is a scripting language developed by Microsoft to help developers write scripts that interact with its products. VBScript is mainly used with Internet Explorer.
Do your users like to tinker with scripts? Keep yours out of harm’s way by using Microsoft’s Script Encoder. Greg Shultz shows you how to use the Encoder for basic script protection. If you’ve been ...
In my last two articles, I discussed how to read and write to files using Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). This week we discuss how to declare and use variables, constants and strings. In ...
programmatically access the file system and create, modify, delete, open, and close files for different purposes. To open/create a file in VBScript, you must create a handle on the FileSystemxxx ...
At school I am moving all my DOS scripts to VBScript and have a little problem. I want my script to check \\server\share\username to see if the folder exists. If not create it, then map drive X to ...
I have multiple PCs at home running XP Pro SP2. I have created the following vbscript that executes whenever a user logs in. The idea is to look for the other PC (mapped as O:/) and, if it exists (i.e ...
I'm a huge PowerShell fanboy. I actively blog about PowerShell, tweet about PowerShell, and present about PowerShell. I'm also the president of a local PowerShell users group. Needless to say, I no ...
It's time to step back a bit, however, and learn some of the technical details of remote scripting before we go any further. It's all well and good to jump in and try things, but sometimes we hit a ...