Windows Script Host Programmer's Reference

by Dino Esposito

The Windows Script Host is Microsoft's response to the need for a way of programming Windows in a manner analogous to the way batch files can be used to automate jobs in MS-DOS. Rather as Office 2000... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861002653
• ISBN13: 9781861002655
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, Mr. Esposito. Excellent.

I was very impressed with the WSH coverage and the examples. In addition, the downloadable source code and dlls provide a great WSH toolkit for WSH programmers. I've used the WshKit described in the book on several projects now and have made a few of my own extensions to it. The tools and ideas presented in the book are a great addition to Microsoft's online help. I think that one nice thing to have added to this book is for every example done in VBScript, the same example should have been provided in JScript (and vice versa). This would have been nice for those people just learning scripting because they want to have batch file capability.At any rate, I would recommend this book to anyone.

Good Programmer's Reference

If the WSH has a capability not covered in this book, have have yet to encounter it (and I use WSH each day). This is not a reference for vbscript or jscript; this is a generic programming guide to using the WSH. If you know one or more activex scripting languages, get this book. Easy reading; few mistakes (remember: it's not .ws, it's .wsf by default).

Great book

Someone else reviewed this book and rated it low (2 stars) because they said it was geared too much for a developer. Well, thats why the title says "Windows Scripting Host" PROGRAMMERS REFERENCE". In the future before you review a book, understand what the book is trying to accomplish. This is a great reference, with good examples

This book is the Rosetta Stone of MS Component Technology

I have spent months and many bucks trying to learn how to create com objects for WinNT. This book gave me both the information and the insight to create, debug and run simple WSC and ASP components written in VBScript in less than 3 hours from the time I realized that such a thing was possible. Finding out about WSH 2.0 has made me a Microsoft NT Zealot and quite possibly created a monster. We'll see :-). In any event, I think I have written my last ksh script.

A must have book for developers, sys admins, & power users

Great book for learning WSH and its associated object models. This book has an emphaisis on creating reuable code, using both WSH 1 & 2. Dino Esposito also gives us some shell extensions he has written in VB & C++.