Re: Good WSH Book

I have that book and a similarly titled one on VBScript (both from Wrox
Press).

I think it will be difficult to find everything in one book with the level
of coverage that the OP is looking for.


/Al

"mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I like Dino Esposito's Windows Script Host
Programmer's Reference, though the copy I
have is slightly outdated in some ways. On the
other hand, there isn't a heck of a lot in the
WSH "API" and very little has changed since
at least v. 5.1. So a book from 2000 is only
slightly out of date.

It helps to have some reference for unusal things,
but the WSH help file is all that's needed for basic
VBS reference. For the most part, the WSH "API" is
really the sum of the MS and 3rd-party COM objects
that you can use. For instance, you can do lots
of things with an IE instance, but that's not actually
part of WSH.

WMI is another issue. I have one WMI book that's
of almost no use at all. There's a WMI CHM help file,
but it's not easy to use. For most of that I find sample
code best, personally. The whole WMI system is just
very complex and awkwardly designed.
But I also don't find WMI to be very useful. The Windows
Installer stuff is accessible by just using WindowsInstaller.Installer
itself. The hardware information is nice, but how often does
anyone *really* need that. The Registry functions are
handy, but enumeration of keys and values is really the only
part that WSH can't do itself. The one area where I've found
WMI very useful is in automating control of services.
(You might find more uses if you're using it for network admin.)

I'm looking for a good WSH book that meets the following requirements:

Must cover VBScript in-depth.
Must cover WSH in-depth.
Must cover ADSI to some degree.
May include some WMI content.
Covers newest version of WSH (not a book written in 2000)

I've done a lot of looking and can't seem to find something that meets my
requirments. Does anyone have any suggestions?

FYI - I purchased VBScript Step by Step (Ed Wilson) and find that it is
close to what I'm looking for, but it is very short on WSH and it's API.

Thanks!






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