VBScript in a nutshell

US: O'Reilly, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Microsoft's Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), a subset of Visual B asic for Applications, is a powerful language for Internet application deve lopment, where it can serve as a scripting language for server-side Interne t applications (i.e., Active Server Pages), and client-side web pages. It c an also be used for system scripting (i.e., Windows Script Host scripts) an d programming Outlook forms. The greater part of this book is an alphabetical VBScript language referenc e to all VBScript statements, keywords and objects, emphasizing the followi ng details: The syntax, using standard code conventions A list of arguments accepted by the function or procedure, if any exist A description of the data returned by a function A discussion of how and where the keyword should be used within the scripti ng environment A section of notes and solutions to real-world gotchas, and various undocum ented behaviors and aspects of the language that help the reader avoid pote ntial problems A section that focuses on the differences between the language element in V BA and in VBScript A brief example to illustrate the use of the keyword Supplementing this focus on VBScript language essentials is a wealth of add itional information about VBScript, including: Basic language information on VBScript data types, constants, variables, an d arrays The difference between VBScript and VBA or JavaScript The use of the MSIE, Active Server, Outlook, and Windows Script Host object models to.