Understanding VBScript
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[October 25, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: The Shell Object Model’s Folder and FolderItem Objects
New types of folders in Win95 and later created the need for a new programming interface. In this interface, Folder objects represent Windows shell folders and FolderItem objects represent items in the folders. Here’s a look at how to use these objects.
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Dino Esposito
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[September 27, 2000]
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Getting Shell Objects onto Your System
Windows Shell objects aren’t natively on all versions of Windows OSs. This sidebar discusses which OS versions don’t have these objects and how you can obtain them.
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Dino Esposito
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[September 27, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: The Windows Shell Object Model
Shell objects are well suited for use in the Windows Script Host (WSH) environment. You can use Shell objects to not only access special folders and file-system directories but also programmatically drive the Windows shell and Windows Explorer.
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Dino Esposito
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[August 23, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: Real-World Uses of Regular Expressions
Last month, Dino Esposito introduced you to VBScript’s regular expressions. This month, he shows you how to use them to rewrite two commonly used VBScript functions—InputBox and Replace—to enhance your real-world applications.
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[July 24, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: Using Regular Expressions
The introduction of regular expressions to VBScript 5.0 is an important advancement. After you understand how regular expressions work, you can use them to perform advanced text processing, such as searching and replacing text.
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[June 15, 2000]
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Where to Find VBScript 5.0 and How It Compares with VBA and JScript
If you use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or JScript, you might be interested in knowing how VBScript 5.0 compares with these languages. If you decide you want to use VBScript 5.0, you can download it from the Web site provided.
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Dino Esposito
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[June 15, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: Runtime Code Evaluation
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. This installment discusses a new feature in VBScript 5.0: the ability to evaluate code at runtime.
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Dino Esposito
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[May 19, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: The Dictionary Object—An Alternative to Arrays
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. This installment discusses a new type of “super” array: the dictionary. Unlike VBScript arrays, dictionaries let you use keys and indexes to access their data.
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Dino Esposito
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[April 19, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: The TextStream Object
This column covers all aspects of VBScript. This month, you'll learn how to access the FSO model's TextStream object so that you can access text files. You'll also learn about a possible security implication when using FSO objects in VBScript code.
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Dino Esposito
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[April 19, 2000]
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Why Not Binary Files?
This Web-exclusive sidebar tells you why the File System Object (FSO) model supports only text files and not binary files.
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Dino Esposito
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[March 20, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: Working with the File Object
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. This month, you can learn how to access and use the File object, which is part of the File System Object (FSO) model.
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Dino Esposito
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[February 18, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: The Folder Object
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. This month, you'll learn about the File System Object (FSO) model's Folder object, which lets you access and manipulate folders and their subfolders.
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Dino Esposito
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[February 18, 2000]
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Special Tools for Special Folders
To access special folders, you need to use special tools. Here's a brief look at those tools.
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Dino Esposito
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[January 14, 2000]
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Understanding VBScript: The Drive Object
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. This month, the column delves into the details of the File System Object (FSO) model's Drive object.
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Dino Esposito
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[December 17, 1999]
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Understanding VBScript: Manipulating Files with FileSystemObject
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. This month, the column gives you an overview of the File System Object (FSO) model, which lets you manipulate the Windows file system.
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Dino Esposito
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[December 17, 1999]
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Windows 2000 Introduces a New Method
In Windows 2000, the FileSystemObject (FSO) object model will have a new method: GetFileVersion.
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Dino Esposito
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[November 22, 1999]
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Understanding VBScript: Object Management
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. This month, the column discusses how to use COM objects in VBScript code.
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Dino Esposito
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[October 25, 1999]
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Understanding VBScript: Functions to Manipulate Strings
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. The November column discusses how to use functions to initialize, format, extract, search for, and convert strings.
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Dino Esposito
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[October 25, 1999]
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Create a Custom Function to Manipulate Strings
This Web-exclusive sidebar explains how to create two user-defined functions: the SentenceCase function and the SetIndexAt function.
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Dino Esposito
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[October 1, 1999]
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Understanding VBScript: Built-In and User-Defined Functions
This monthly column covers all aspects of the VBScript language. The October column looks at two popular built-in functions: MsgBox and InputBox. This column also shows you how to create a user-defined function.
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Dino Esposito
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