WSH Tutorial

Günter Born Windows Scripting Host Tutorial © G. Born – Windows Scripting Host Tutorial II Günter Born Windows Scripting Host Tutorial This is the English version of the book: "Inside Windows Scripting Host", Microsoft Press Germany, 1999 ISBN 3-86063-495-X Published by Günter Born Copyright © 1999 by Günter Born http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Guenter_Born All rights reserved. No part of the contents of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the author/publisher. Disclaimer The materials, sample code, andfiles in this text and from referenced sources are provided AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND AND ARE PROVIDED WITHOUT ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR PURPOSE OR MERCHANTABILITY. Use of the materials and code is to be undertaken entirely at your risk, and the results that may be obtained from that use are dependent on the user. © G. Born – Windows Scripting Host Tutorial III G. Born: Windows Scripting Host Tutorial Preface XXI Introduction XXIII Why I wrote this book? XXIII How to use this book? XXIVA few other remarks XXV 1 Introduction into WSH 1 What is the Windows Script Host? 1 What can we do with WSH scripts? 2 A few remarks about JScript/VBScript 3 How to install WSH? 4 How to check whether WSH is installed? 4 Install WSH in Windows 98 4 Windows 95/Windows NT 4.0 5 How to create and use ...