VBScript, or Visual Basic Scripting, is a scripting language developed by Microsoft to help developers write scripts that interact with its products. VBScript is mainly used with Internet Explorer.

In my last two articles, I discussed how to read and write to files using Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript). This week we discuss how to declare and use variables, constants and strings. In ...

I have a vbs login script that I use at work. I wish that this vb script would run without the use of a batch file, but since we have Win98 clients, I see no other way (if anyone knows of another way, ...

programmatically access the file system and create, modify, delete, open, and close files for different purposes. To open/create a file in VBScript, you must create a handle on the FileSystemxxx ...

I've been treating Excel like a glorified calculator for most of my life. Sure, formulas made doing more complex calculations easier and automatically updated data, and there are free Excel templates ...

At school I am moving all my DOS scripts to VBScript and have a little problem. I want my script to check \\server\share\username to see if the folder exists. If not create it, then map drive X to ...

Do your users like to tinker with scripts? Keep yours out of harm’s way by using Microsoft’s Script Encoder. Greg Shultz shows you how to use the Encoder for basic script protection. If you’ve been ...

I'm a huge PowerShell fanboy. I actively blog about PowerShell, tweet about PowerShell, and present about PowerShell. I'm also the president of a local PowerShell users group. Needless to say, I no ...