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Microsoft Windows Script Host 2.0 Developer's Guide Review by Joel J. Garrett
If you can only buy one book on WSH, this is the one...
There are quite few titles out there now on Windows Script Host and I must say that out of all of the titles that I have seen, this one is the most balanced in terms of helping out newcomers to the technology, as well as seasoned, hard-core scripters coming from experience with other scripting environments to get "up and running" with WSH, using either VBScript or JScript. Development tools, such as editors, debuggers, etc. are also covered and the companion CD is one of the best collections of MS content (all the reference/Scripting SDK stuff on the MSDN Scripting site) as well as demo versions of some 3rd-party scripting tools, sample code from the book and even a .CHM full-text version of the book itself! The MS content and full-text e-Book have saved my bacon on more than one occasion when doing scripting work where I didn't have 'Net access and needed to look something up or install a tool/example/etc.
The real shame here is that the follow-on title mentioned in this book was just recently cancelled by Microsoft Press!!! I know _I_ felt cheated! (I'd advance-ordered the book - it had an ISBN # and delivery date already assigned, for goodness' sake!)
MS Press, wake up and resurrect this book's sequel! Please!