Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.3684
EAN num: 9781861002655
ISBN number: 1861002653
Label: Peer Information Ltd.
Manufacturer: Peer Information Ltd.
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 373
Printing Date: 1999-06
Publishing house: Peer Information Ltd.
Sale Popularity Level: 1145367
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The Windows Script Host (WSH) is Microsoft's response to the need for a way of programming Windows in a manner analogous to the way batch files can be used to automate jobs in MS-DOS. Rather as Office 2000 provides VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) as a development tool, Windows 98 and Windows 2000 contain the Windows Script Host.
WSH enables you to use scripting languages - VBScript and JScript are available by default - to acess the Windows shell directly. As well as providing facilities of its own for tasks including shortcut management and registry manipulation, WSH enables the use of any Automation-compatible COM object. In other words, a script can be created with a simple text editor like Notepad, and used to control any process for which an object model exists.
Amazon.com Review:
Aimed at any system administrator or Windows programmer, Dino Esposito's Windows Scripting Host Programmer's Reference provides a truly excellent guide to getting the most out of the new Windows Scripting Host (WSH) for Windows batch processing. Filled with many short examples and tips on scripting strategy, this handy book provides a really invaluable mix of advice and nuts-and-bolts code examples.
This concise how-to provides much more than a reference to WSH objects (though naturally, the book includes reference material on VBScript, JScript, and the WSH object model). Esposito is very skilled at showing off various pieces of WSH while paying attention to real-world scripting tasks. In the interest of practical programming, he includes numerous small examples for common administrative tasks using WSH, such as working with files, the Windows Registry, and automating installation and using dialogs within WSH scripts.
Though powerful, WSH doesn't do everything. A standout feature here is the author's custom 'component gallery' of extensions to WSH for common tasks through COM objects. (Sample components are included for browsing files, managing processes, and displaying messages to users.) The book's final example, which automates the creation of an invoice in Microsoft Word and then e-mails it, shows off WSH as an effective 'glue' that can let different components and applications work together.
As this book suggests, WSH is a powerful tool for wiring together Windows components. Armed with this guide to creating effective WSH scripts, any administrator or programmer can be productive with Windows scripting. --Richard Dragan
Topics covered: Windows Script Host (WSH) overview, installing WSH, batch processing, VBScript and JScript, Windows Script Interfaces, system administration, console and graphical WSH applications, shell support, the WSH object model, running and stopping scripts and programs, COM objects, arguments, accessing the Registry, shortcuts, URLs, files and directories, installation scripts, Script Run-time Library (SRL), shell automation objects, reusability issues (classes, custom COM objects, the Windows Script Component [WSC] wizard, dialog boxes, and user interfaces), and script security.
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This book is an excellent resource for someone who already knows quite a bit about Windows Scripting. If you are a beginner or trying to just get started this book is not for you.
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Dino Esposito is one of the best on using and teaching the Microsoft technologies. With this book, he did a good job, but from Dino I was expecting something better. Too many pages are spent describing how to use a COM object that is not part of the WSH. He also underestimates the use of WSH for tasks that are not for system administration. Anyway, using this book I was able to understand how to use WSH, when WSH is the best tool to solve a problem and when it is not.
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This book was my very first stab at WSH, and I was dissapointed with this book. The bright side is that it shows most examples in several languages (VB Script, JavaScript, WS), and the very first half of the book is pretty good. Howerver, in the second half of the book, all Esposito did was introduct objects that he had compliled and written and how readers could use and implement them. If he wants to promote his own objects and explain them, he should have written a book entitled "These are my objects and how to use them". Otherwise, he should have stuck to the subject matter, WSH, itself (or renamed this book!).
Additionally, Esposito is very flowery in hiw writing. If I want flowery writing, I'll check out something in the fiction section of Amazon, but for my technical books, I want to-the-point information.
One other thing I saw that another reader noted is that most of what Esposito addresses is Win98. I would have hoped to find more NT / 2K stuff since that's what most of us in the real world are running and supporting.
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I expected it to be a reference guide, but it really requires a lot of deduction to pull anything together. The book isn't clear on which version of the WSH it is using, doesn't provide usage code examples for all listed commands in both Java Script and VBScript, and either lightly touches upon, or completely skips major concepts. It reads pretty dry, and really should make the source code readily available right in the book, instead of having to navigate through Wrox's site to find it. Might be a good "additional information" type book once you buy and read a real instructional or reference book for the WSH.
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Dino is a gifted technical writer. Check out his articles at MSDN. I came to this book for remote scripting needs in an intranet project. What I found was the best presentation of the current state of MS's vision for scripting technologies - way beyond where I thought they were going. The usage of elementary XML with WSH indicates how pervasive and committed MS is to developing their scripting platform. This is a must read for any MS developer as well as motivated non-programming NT Administrators who want to control their Windows environment.
J Stivers MCSD MSDBA IBM Midrange Systems and Programming Professional
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