VBScript

VBScript is a programming language created in 1996.

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VBScript ("Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition") is an Active Scripting language developed by Microsoft that is modeled on Visual Basic. It allows Microsoft Windows system administrators to generate powerful tools for managing computers with error handling, subroutines, and other advanced programming constructs. It can give the user complete control over many aspects of their computing environment. Read more on Wikipedia...

VBScript website
VBScript Wikipedia page
PLDB has 2 documentation sites for VBScript: www.csidata.com, learn.microsoft.com
There are at least 6,076 VBScript repos on GitHub
VBScript first developed in Microsoft
PLDB estimates there are currently 142 job openings for VBScript programmers.
file extensions for VBScript include vbs, vbe, wsf, wsc and VBS
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 327 users using VBScript in 339 repos on GitHub
There are 916 members in the VBScript subreddit
Explore VBScript snippets on Rosetta Code
VBScript on HOPL
VBScript ranks #34 in the TIOBE Index
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting VBScript
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for VBScript
Indeed.com has 142 matches for "vbscript developer".
See also: (10 related languages)ASP, Visual Basic, PowerShell, JScript, Batchfile, Regular Expressions, JavaScript, MUMPS, Applescript, FastTrack Scripting Host
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Example from the Hello World Collection:

' Hello World in VBScript (Windows Scripting Host)
msgbox "Hello, World!"

Example from Wikipedia:

<% Option Explicit
 %><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 <html>
 	<head>
 		<title>VBScript Example</title>
 	</head>
 	<body>
        <div><% 
 		' Grab current time from Now() function.
                ' An '=' sign occurring after a context switch (<%) is shorthand 
                ' for a call to the Write() method of the Response object.
 		Dim timeValue = Now %>
 		The time, in 24-hour format, is 
                <%=Hour(timeValue)%>:<%=Minute(timeValue)%>:<%=Second(timeValue)%>.
        </div>
 	</body>
 </html>

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Integers	✓		' [0-9]+
Floats	✓		' [0-9]+\.[0-9]*(e[+-]?[0-9]+)?
Hexadecimals	✓		' &h[0-9a-f]+
Line Comments	✓	'	' A comment
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X

title	author	year	reviews	ratings	rating
Vbscript Programmer's Reference	Adrian W. Kingsley-Hughes	2004	2	37	3.62
Microsoft Wsh and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner	Jerry Lee Ford Jr.	2003	3	32	3.22
VBScript for Dummies	John Walkenbach	1996	0	0	0.0

Books about VBScript from ISBNdb

title	authors	year	publisher
VBScript Programmers Reference	Adrian Kingsley-Hughes and Kathie Kingsley-Hughes and Paul Wilton and Brian Francis and Brian Matsik and Erick Nelson and Piotr Prussak and Dan Read and Carsten Thomsen and Stuart Updegrave and Antonio De Donatis and Susanne Clark	1999	Wrox Press
VBScript Sourcebook (Sourcebooks)	Mara, Mary Jane	1997	Wiley
VBScript in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition	Paul Lomax and Matt Childs and Ron Petrusha	2003	O'Reilly Media
VBScript Pocket Reference	Lomax, Paul and Childs, Matt and Petrusha, Ron	2001	O'Reilly Media
Microsoft WSH and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner	Ford, Jr. Jerry Lee	2005	Cengage Learning PTR
Vbscript Interactive Course	Jerke, Noel and Hatmaker, Michael and Anderson, Jonny	1997	Waite Group Pr
Vbscript by Example	Honeycutt, Jerry	1996	Que Pub
VBScript Programming Success In A Day	Key, Sam	2015	Lulu.com
Microsoft WSH and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner	Ford Jr., Jerry	2008	Cengage Learning PTR
Microsoft WSH and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 4th	Ford, Jr. Jerry Lee	2014-04-15T00:00:01Z	Cengage Learning PTR
Learning VBScript (Nutshell Handbooks)	Lomax, Paul	1997	O'Reilly Media
VBScript Programming Success in a Day: Beginner?s Guide to Fast, Easy and Efficient Learning of VBScript Programming	Key, Sam	2015	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Internet Programming with VBScript and JavaScript (Web Warrior Series)	Kalata, Kate	2000	Cengage Learning
Microsoft VBScript Professional Projects	Ford, Jr., Jerry Lee	2003	Course Technology PTR
Vbscript Unleashed	Schongar, Bill and Lagasse, Paul and Eddy, Craig and Brophy, Keith and Graupman, Owen and Johnson, Brian and Koets, Timothy and Petroutsos, Evangelos	1996	Sams
Learn Microsoft VBScript In a Weekend	Ford Jr., Jerry Lee	2002	Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade
VBScript in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))	Childs, Matt and Lomax, Paul and Petrusha, Ron	1995	O'Reilly Media
Laura Lemay's Web Workshop Activex and Vbscript	Rogers Cadenhead and Paul Lomax	1996	Sams
Microsoft WSH and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner	Ford, Jr. Jerry Lee	2003	Cengage Learning PTR
Vbscript Master's Handbook	Goddard, Christopher J. and White, Mark	1996	Premier Pr
Microsoft Wsh And Vbscript Programming For The Absolute Beginner	Jerry Lee Ford	2009	Nelson Education
ASP 3 Programacion en Vbscript para IIS 5.0/ ASP 3 Programming in Vbscript For IIS 5.0 (Guias Practicas/ Practical Guides) (Spanish Edition)	Gonzalez, Oscar	2001	Anaya Multimedia-Anaya Interactiva
(part 2) You Must Learn Vbscript For Qtp/uft (fc)	Rex Allen Jones Ii	2015
VBScript Pocket Reference	Paul Lomax; Matt Childs; Ron Petrusha	20010201	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Vbscript for Dummies	Walkenbach, John		John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers)
VBScript Pocket Reference	Paul Lomax; Matt Childs; Ron Petrusha	20010201	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
VBScript in a Nutshell	Paul Lomax; Matt Childs; Ron Petrusha	20030320	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
VBScript in a Nutshell	Paul Lomax; Matt Childs; Ron Petrusha	20030320	O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Creating Cool Vbscript Web Pages	Hatfield, Bill.	1997	Idg Books Worldwide
Using Vbscript (special Edition Using)	Ron Schwarz and Ibrahim Malluf and William Beem and Yusuf Malluf and Michael Marchuk and Tom Tessier	1996	Macmillan Computer Pub
Microsoft Powershell, Vbscript And Jscript Bible	William R. Stanek and Jeffrey Rosen and James O'Neill	2009	Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
VBScript A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition	Gerardus Blokdyk	2020	Emereo
VBScript 102 Success Secrets - 102 Most Asked Questions On VBScript - What You Need To Know	Cynthia Baird	20140228	Emereo
Microsoft WSH and VBScript Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 4th	Jerry Lee Ford, Jr.	20140415	Cengage Limited
Microsoft Wsh And Vbscript Programming For The Absolute Beginner, 4th Ed.	Jerry Lee Ford Jr.	2014	Cengage Learning
Vbscript Superbible: The Complete Reference To Programming In Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition	Jinjer L. Simon	1996	Waite Group Pr
Vbscript 2 And Activex Programming : Master The Art Of Creating Interactive Web Pages	Scott Palmer	1997	Coriolis Group, Llc, The

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