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Welcome to our Windows Scripting
Host (WSH) guide. Microsoft currently
offers three hosts for running
scripting language code. They
are:
- Internet Explorer (IE)
- Internet Information Server
(IIS)
- Windows Script Host (WSH,
VBS)
The Internet Explorer and the
Internet Information Server are
well known to developers. However,
many developers may not be familiar
with the Windows Script Host.
WSH (VBS) is a very useful tool
that allows you to directly run
VBScript, JScript and XML encoded
scripts natively within the operating
system.
Windows Script Host is the
successor of batch
files and enables scripts
to be executed directly on the
Windows desktop or command console,
without the need to embed those
scripts in an HTML document.
Scripts can be run directly
from the desktop by clicking
on a script file, or from the
command console. WSH provides
a low-memory scripting host
that is ideal for non-interactive
scripting needs, such as logon
scripting, administrative scripting,
and so on.
Windows Script Host comes free
with Windows 2000/XP
and 98/ME. If you have
Windows 95 or NT, WSH can be
downloaded for free from Microsoft
as part of a package called
"Windows Script 5.1".
Click
here to download WSH (free)
directly from Microsoft. |
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