Visual Basic Scripting?

#1 08-25-2008, 08:38 PM

I just made a VBS file that contains this text

Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
objShell.TileVertically

When the file is run, that tiles Windows desktop windows vertically.

Is that kind of file produced in Visual Basic, or Visual Basic
Scripting?

When looking for information on Visual Basic Scripting, I run into
"it's all about webpages". Is that script above that tiles windows
meant for webpages?

I suppose maybe Microsoft doesn't produce a scripting language for
Windows, so maybe I'm looking for something that doesn't exist.

Thanks.

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#2 08-25-2008, 09:36 PM

"John Doe" <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> I just made a VBS file that contains this text
>
> Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
> objShell.TileVertically
>
> When the file is run, that tiles Windows desktop windows vertically.
>
> Is that kind of file produced in Visual Basic, or Visual Basic
> Scripting?
>
> When looking for information on Visual Basic Scripting, I run into
> "it's all about webpages". Is that script above that tiles windows
> meant for webpages?
>
> I suppose maybe Microsoft doesn't produce a scripting language for
> Windows, so maybe I'm looking for something that doesn't exist.
>
> Thanks.
>

There is a great deal of confusion even among experienced programmers on the
differences between VBScript ("Visual Basic Scripting Edition"), VBA
("Visual Basic for Applications"), and VB ("Visual Basic"), and where and
how they are used.

Perhaps this article will help to clear up a few things....
http://www.blpress.com/codingsmart/vbscript.html

So yes VBScript ain't just for ASP. <g>

-ralph

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