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2001 | Did you know that Microsoft provides free programming languages? Find out all about it in the Getting Started section. This site provides a comprehensive resource for Windows Script, OLE Automaton and COM objects that you can use to develop your own powerful scripting solutions. Join this site. Over 1,100 others have; you can select how often you get notified of site updates, your email address is kept private and I don’t have time to spam you anyway. Joining also makes file downloads work more reliably. Latest News
28-June-01 Script for the .NET Framework!
| Read the latest Scripting Clinic article. No WSH.NET yet but it looks like all the plumbing will be there to make this a reality. | 3-June-01 New Look WEB Site
| I can't take any of the credit though. MSN Communities has been revamped and you should notice a BIG speed improvement. Other new features include improved Message Board viewing and the ability to recieve a daily digest of the Message Board activity. There is also HTML support in your Email Settings for site change notifications. The What's New page is an ideal candidate for your Home Page | More News... Site Updates
3-June-01 Wake On LAN COM Object Tips
I've been having a good XPperience with the latest beta of WindowsXP. It includes a script component (cmdlib.wsc) that contains a library of functions that you can use in your own scripts. progid = Microsoft.CmdLib | Method Name | Description | | CheckScript | used to find whether CScript is used or not | | vbPrintf | Simulates the Printf function | | getHostName | used to get the current Host name | | getUserName | used to get the current User Name | | getDomainName | used to get the current Domain name | | getPassword | used to get the password from the user | | trapError | Reports error with a string saying what the error occurred in | | getArguments | used to get the arguments into appropriate variables | | wmiConnect | used to connect to wmi provider with the given credentials | | packString | Attaches spaces to a string to increase the length to intWidth | | getMaxStringLen | used to get length of the maximum length string in an array of strings | | showResults | used to show results in the desired format | | validateDateTime | To validate the date-time format specified | | changeToWMIDateTime | To format the given date-time | | matchPattern | checks whether a given value matches a particular pattern |
There are also a number of VBScript files for managing printers in the system32 directory.
Please send any feedback to Ian Morrish. Sorry if you got an unknown recipient error over the last couple of weeks, I changed jobs (1 guess as to where I now work:-) and forgot to change my iName redirect...
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