VBScript In-depth

Explore how Windows scripting host and scripting engines execute VBScript through WScript and CScript, leveraging exposed objects and the object model with properties and methods.

Explore how to select your vbscript development environment, compare Visual Studio Code, Notepad++, and Notepad, and master debugging with breakpoints, step-in execution, and language support.

Explore how to embed both JavaScript and VBScript inside a single Windows script file (wsf) using language attributes in script blocks.

Explore the scite editor for VBScript, linking scripts to output and console messages, and learn practical tips for showing script output and debugging VBScript projects.

Learn VBScript language fundamentals, including variables, data types, and explicit declaration. Master type conversion, concatenation, and how the Windows scripting host executes scripts.

Explore VBScript language fundamentals, including variables, data types, and arrays, along with control structures like if-else, switch, and select case, and array resizing with preserve.

Master VBScript array indexing and the UBound function. Recognize that VBScript uses one-based indexing and that the largest element index defines bounds, not the number of elements, avoiding out-of-range errors.

Master VBScript loops, including for and do loops, and gain an intro to functions and procedures, with conditionals, exit strategies, and array and string handling.

Explore VBScript functions and procedures by learning how to declare, call, and return values, manage required and optional arguments, and distinguish local and global variables for modular code.

Discover how to use the Windows script host objects with VBScript, leverage the WSH object model and script engines, and work with libraries to automate tasks on Windows.

Explains how wsh objects represent VBScript concepts, detailing exposed and non-exposed objects, properties, methods, and using wscript to access environment variables, arguments, and run external apps.

Explore how VBScript uses message box and input box to interact with users, customize prompts with title, body, buttons and icons, and implement input validation and error handling.

Learn to enable Windows 10 file sharing, share specific folders with chosen people, and set read or write permissions while managing network security for home versus public networks.

Learn how to map a network drive, share folders, and use proper credentials to reconnect automatically across laptops on the same network.

Explore the VBScript drive object to map network drives and printers, using the filesystem object to check drive existence and configure network resources.

Learn to read and write registry values with VBScript, export keys, and manage event logs, then schedule automated tasks with Task Scheduler for registry and log operations.

Explore how to launch and automate the Excel application as a COM component from VBScript, creating Excel.Application objects, and calling its methods to interact with workbooks from scripts.

Learn how to use a com object in vbscript to open an msi file and access a database by reading property names and values.

Explore Windows management instrumentation (WMI) and learn how to read system information with VBScript by connecting to WMI objects, listing Win32 classes, and querying services and processes.