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.

Many commercial Web sites use the VBScript language to create flexible, dynamic pages. In some applications, such as a site that lets you download business documents, a VBScript-based Web page ...

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I used to code a lot of Java in college, but it's been years and I never learned VBScript. I know exactly what I want my script to do, and yet it's taking me forever to figure out how to do it.

More fun with VB and APIs In this sample, we used the SHFileOperation API to send a specified file to the Recycle Bin, allowing users to restore files if necessary. Next time, we will look at some ...

I'd like to verify a file was copied successfully to the network based on file size I suppose.<BR><BR>But if I do the following, then using Computer Management on the server, close the handle it comes ...

This is the object that allows you to work with the file system. Next, we created a handle to a file that resides in the file system using the code: “Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile (“serverList ...

On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...