Windows Scripting Host link page

The Windows Scripting Host (WSH) is one of the most interesting things which Microsoft has released since the MS-DOS batch programs for the Windows users. Finally we got the tool to create programs to automate our tasks under Windows. After writing two books about the WSH I feel we can do nearly all those things for which others use Visual Basic, Visual C, Delphi or other environments. Why waste hundred of bucks to stuff your hard disk full with files, if we can get an equivalent programming language for free?

Unfortunately Microsoft forgot to tell us about this marvelous thing. There is nearly no or only poor support for WSH, VBScript and JScript. But thanks to many computer enthusiasts and the Internet, we have now much more resource (as I found as I started with WSH 9 months ago). Here I like to give a few links which leads you directly to the sites of interest for WSH programmers.

microsoft.public.scripting.wsh Windows Scripting Host newsgroup

This is the newsgroup about the Windows Scripting Host, where you get the answers to your question.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/scripting Microsoft's Scripting web site

This site contains the whole documents around Windows Scripting Host: the WSH programmers reference, the WSH object models, the VBScript/JScript language references and much more. Visit this site also for the most recent versions of the script engines, the script debugger and so on.

http://www.windows-script.com

Glazier's WSH Web site

Another web site containing valuable material, maintained by Ian Morrish. The WSH website contains a WSH news letter, a WSH FAQ list with many helpful tips, a download page for scripts and a factory section containing many useful controls to extend the WSH with new objects, methods and properties. This web site contains for instance ActiveX controls to shutdown Windows NT, to access Winsock and TCP/IP. There is also a collaborate section where programmers can share their scripts.

http://cwashington.netreach.net The Win32 Scripting page

A web site I may not forget to mention here (and which you MUST VISIT) is maintained by Clearance Washington. Clearance is (beside Ian Morrish) the other person frequently contributing to the WSH newsgroup. His site contains a rather helpful download area (the script repository), offering many scripts written in different language from many people around the world. Clearance undertook to task to collect them and offer them at a single place for download. This site contains also links to other WSH sources in the net (like links to the newest tools within the Microsoft sites). And Clearance began to moderate a discussion lounge within his site, containing many questions, answers and contributions about WSH stuff.

http://www.sapien.com The PrimalSCRIPT web site

Are you nerved from the Windows Notepad for script developing? Do you need a real tool for a professional script development? Then you must visit this page. The PrimalSCRIPT script editor it THE TOOL for script development. They offer a 30-Day-Trial version for download. Currently there is version 1.0 available, but they are working on a new version with many new features (wow!). And they had a »Script Exchange« section where script programmers can exchange scripts for several hosts and distinct languages (not even JScript and VBScript, also Pearl, Tcl and so on).

www.catalyst.com Catalyst web site

Catalyst Development, offering Socket-Tools as ActiveX controls for Windows Sockets programming. Containing valid info about TCP/IP programming.

www.voidpointer.com Script Driven Internet (SDI) web page

Script Driven Internet (SDI) web page. SDI32 is a tool which can be used to automate different Internet related tasks (FTP, e-mail etc.) from a script.

http://www.meadroid.com/scriptx/ ScriptX web page

ScriptX is a control which supports also a couple of other neat methods for the script programmer. You can use this control for event sinks (this means: external events may be passed to the WSH script). The control provided many features to show dialogs and other function. Also the control can be used to bring JScript closer to VBScript (a method can be called, and then you can check whether a run-time error has occurred). The specs for ScriptX may be found also on this web page.

http://www.winscripter.com Daren's wsh page

A web page containing JScript samples.

http://homepages.go.com/~sbondi/powerscripting Steven Bondi's scripting page

An excellent Website explaining the steps to write Power Scripts. Contains also samples and other hints.

http://www.dameware.com/sites.asp DameWare website

A site with several controls and other stuff.

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by Günter Born