Windows Script Host (WSH) and VBScript related links

• Download WSH
• Development Tools
• Discussion
• Reference
• Tutorials & Articles
• Algorithms
• Script samples
• Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
• Third party ActiveX scripting languages
  (languages that use the Windows Script Host)
• HTA (HTML Application) links
• More Windows Scripting links
• WSH books
  • WSH and VBScript
  • Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)
  • Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

Download WSH:

• Download the latest version (5.7 for Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003, 5.6 for older Windows versions is no longer available).
  WSH 5.7 is native in Windows Vista, WSH 5.8 in Windows 7 and later.
• Download the WSH 5.6 Documentation in .CHM format

Discussion:

• microsoft.public.scripting.jscript
• microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript
• microsoft.public.scripting.wsh

Reference:

• Microsoft's TechNet Script Center
• Microsoft's Windows Script page
• Download the WSH 5.6 Documentation in .CHM format
• Windows Scripting Guide's VBScript Reference
• WSH Reference Guide
• Mappings for the Active Directory Users and Computers Snap-in

Tutorials & Articles:

• Microsoft's TechNet Script Center
• Download Microsoft's Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Tutorial
• VisualBasicScript.Com
• Introduction to Windows Scripting by Simon Clausen

Algorithms:

• A collection of algorithms for ASP/VBScript at Planet Source Code
• An algorithm I have used in several scripting languages:
  Calculating the Date of Easter from Simon Kershaw's KEEPING THE FEAST site
• The Sieve of Eratosthenes, an algorithm to calculate prime numbers

Script samples:

• My own collections of WSH scripting samples and HTA examples
• ActiveXperts' Scripts Collection for Windows management
• Download the System Administration Scripting Guide Scripts, a HTML help file (.CHM) loaded with samples
• Alex K. Angelopoulos' Windows Scripting pages
• Microsoft's TechNet Script Center
• Joe's Software's VBScript samples and components
• Adersoft's VBScript Samples
• Bill James' Windows 9x/ME VBScript Tools
• Swynk.com's Windows Script Library
• Windows Scripting Guide's Code Snippets
• Shortcuts & Utilities
• Darwin Sanoy's IsLaptop script detects if a computer is a laptop "by checking five different WMI classes for data that may help identify the computer as a laptop"
• Clarence Washington's site may no longer be available, but much of the code published on his site is now included in myITforum's Code Repository

Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) links:

These links have been moved to the WMI & ADSI section.

Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) links:

These links have been moved to the WMI & ADSI section.

Third party ActiveX scripting languages

• PerlScript

HTA (HTML Application) links:

Well, not really part of WSH, but I mention HTAs here because you can use them to create great GUIs for your VBScripts.

• My own HTA sample scripts
• Microsoft Script Center's HTA Developers Center
• HTML Applications Reference
• Crafting Your Very Own Scriptomatic

More Windows Scripting links:

• Labmice.net's Windows Scripting Host Resources

Books:

• WSH and VBScript
• Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)
• Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)

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