Re: What's a good IDE for VBScript

From: Michael Harris \(MVP\) ("Michael)
Date: 02/11/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:25:38 -0800

ScottFenstermacher wrote:
> Sorry for the late addition to this thread...
>
> If you have Microsoft Office installed, look for a file called
> MSExx.exe (where xx is the version of Office). This is the Microsoft
> Script Editor, and assuming you did a full install of Word you should
> have it.

In case it isn't installed (comes with all Office 2000/XP/2003 apps)...

To install the optional Microsoft Script Editor
--> Add/Remove programs, <your Office 2000/XP app>
--> change, add or remove features

then look under Office Tools -> HTML Source Editing -> Web Scripting.

With the Office XP version of MSE (MSE7.EXE), syntax coloring and
IntelliSense both work great right out of the box. It already knows about
js/vbs/wsf script extensions (I had to add the wsc extension manually).

You can also pass a file name via the command line when you start MSE7.EXE
and it will open the script in the editor (the mse.exe Office 2000 version
wouldn't accept a file name via the command line).

You can't start the debugger for WSH hosted script files via the Debug /
Start menu. But there is a 'View/Open With...' menu option. The Open With
dialog already had wscript.exe as an option.

You can add more 'View/Open With...' choices for:

wscript.exe //d --> which I named wscript (debug enabled)
wscript.exe //x --> which I named wscript (start in debugger)

and cscript.exe versions as well. The dialog complains (only a bit,
probably because of the switches) but lets you add them anyway.

What's really nice is that when you use these, you get a choice of debugging
in the current instance of MSE (where you're editing) or a new instance of
MSE or in any other available script debugger you may also have installed,
such as the various versions of VStudio. 

-- 
Michael Harris
Microsoft MVP Scripting

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