In this chapter, we will review what Windows Script Host (WSH) actually is. As WSH will be used throughout this book, this first chapter provides the necessary foundation required to understand ...

More power to the double-click! Few are aware of scripting with batch files, but people don’t use batch files much unless when working with mountainous tasks. Even fewer are aware of Windows Scripting ...

Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. VBScript (also known as Visual Basic Script or ...

I want to write a script that pings a server and if it responds, map a hardcoded network drive, pretty simple. What language should I attempt to do it in? I want to learn Perl and know it minimally, ...

The facility within a program that runs another program. For example, a Web browser is a scripting host that can execute instructions in languages such as Java and JavaScript. See Windows Script Host.