WSH (Windows Script Host)

VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - Version 5.20, by Dr. Herong Yang

VBScript Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟WSH (Windows Script Host)

This chapter provides tutorial examples and notes on WSH (Windows Script Host). Topics include running WSH commands, cscript and wscript, with options; summary of WSH runtime objects; using StdIn and StdOut for input and output; running system commands with script code; defining script jobs in a WSF file.

What is WSH (Windows Script Host)?

"csript.exe/wscript.exe" Command Version and Options

Running VBScript Code Files

"WScript" Runtime Object Hierarchy

"oShell.Exec(cmd)" - Running System Command with a Script

WSF - Windows Script File XML Format

Conclusions:

WSH (Windows Script Host) is an administrative tool to run scripts written in scripting language like VBScript.
WSH provides runtime objects to allow your script code to interact with the local system environment.
WSF (Windows Script File) is an XML file format that allows you to define scripting jobs.
Two WSH commands, cscript.exe and wscript.exe, are provided to run scripts with and without a command window.

Table of Contents

About This Book

Introduction of VBScript - Visual Basic Scripting Edition

Variant Data Type, Subtypes, and Literals

Arithmetic Operations

Numeric Comparison Operations and Logical Operations

String Operations - Concatenation and Comparison

Variable Declaration and Assignment Statement

Expression and Order of Operation Precedence

Statement Syntax and Statement Types

Array Data Type and Related Statements

Array References and Array Assignment Statements