I've found it incredibly useful

I have found this book incredibly useful. Without it, I doubt I could have put together some sorely-needed processes such as a developer-friendly build for a large system with several VB6 components with complex interdependencies, communicating with .Net components via Interop, therefore regenerating wrappers on the fly. The options are controlled by an XML file that has quite a lot of backward references in it, necessitating recursion in the parsing, and VB script's regular expression support was handy as well. Unix people tend to be surprised at just how capable a non-object-oriented technology can be (well, there is support for objects in a limited way, but it's not like Java!)

Before I had this book I had never heard of WSC objects. What a nifty idea for the Windows environment: a source (script) code object, with methods and properties, that you can register and access like a DLL from your scripts. No compilation, no DLL hell.

Once you have the strong foundation in scripting principles that this book gives you, it is easy to add in topics that it doesn't cover. There's plenty of information on the Web about things like using ADO from VBscript, or HTA applications (a nice way to show a GUI display from a command-line script). Strongly recommended.

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