William T Whalen said
This is one of the best reference books I have purchased in a while, things are really starting to pick-up speed now (repetitive tasks).
S. Doughty said
This books covers many basic topics that I already knew from books such as the Microsoft "Windows 2000 Scripting Guide". It also moves on to advanced topics such as COM objects covered in the Microsoft book "Advanced VBScript for Windows administratiors". If you are not looking for a book to teach you basic programming (If you are looking for a more basic book, try the Microsoft Windows 2000 scripting guide.), but a book to teach you VBScript, this is the book for you.
As for myself, the appendix that covers the various sub-types of the VARIANT variable, and how to cast them as specific sub types (VBScript does not allow one to declare a variable of a specific type, such as a string or integer, as Visual Basic does) was worth the cost of the book alone.
I wish I'd has this information a year ago!!!
Mostafa farghaly said
The book is very good for me as a beginner and want to master VBScript , each chapter of the 21 chapters is centric , heavy organized and easy to digest material with alot of short code examples , tutorials and figures , and the book end with 10 appendices covering the book in a nutshell and act as a reference , what interested my in the book is Sidebar and gadgets programming , task schedular scripting , powershell scripting using VBS , window script host for windows administration like copying and moving files and creating folders and making reports and automated task handling and HTA scripting , before reading the books i did not know that VBScript can do all that .
Cipher said
Like most of the reviews here, I liked this book. The information was presented well and the examples were good. Once I had read the chapters I was going to read though, the book became a bit useless. If you look something up in the index, it will send you to pages where the word happens to be used, even if it was only used in passing. It's like they used a vbscript word-search to create the index. Totally useless. The appendix that is supposed to be a reference is organized by types of things like file system objects, or WMI objects. This is great if you're browsing, but if you're actually looking for something specific, you're SOL. The appendix is not even covered in the useless index. Good read though.
Ronald R. Rinner said
I've been using this as my "go to" source for all things VBScript since the 1st edition came out - it is clear, well organized, and concise. Unlike other VBScript books (of which I have the misfortune to own several), it is focused on VBScript as a programming language. When I can pack only one source book to take with me, this is the one!
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