What is VBScript?

Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition brings active scripting to a wide variety of environments, including Web client scripting in Microsoft Internet Explorer and Web server scripting in Microsoft Internet Information Service.

 

Easy to Use and Learn

If you already know Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), VBScript will be very familiar. Even if you do not know Visual Basic, once you learn VBScript, you are on your way to programming with the whole family of Visual Basic languages. Although you can learn about VBScript in just these few Web pages, they do not teach you how to write the code. To learn programming, take a look at Step by Step books available from Microsoft Press.

 

Windows Script

VBScript talks to host applications using Windows Script. With Windows Script, browsers and other host applications do not require special integration code for each scripting component. Windows Script enables a host to compile scripts, obtain and call entry points, and manage the namespace available to the developer. With Windows Script, language vendors can create standard language run-time modules for scripting. Microsoft will provide run-time support for VBScript. Microsoft is working with various Internet groups to define the Windows Script standard in order to make scripting engines interchangeable. Windows Script is used in Microsoft® Internet Explorer and in Microsoft® Internet Information Service.

 

Using VBScript in VisualCron

To execute VBScript from VisualCron you specify "wscript.exe" in the Command field. In the Arguments field you specify the full path to your script, for example "C:\myscripts\dosomething.vbs".

 

Example of executing .vbs script in VisualCron