Meaning of VBScript – User friendly Tech help
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What is VBScript?
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· VBScript is a scripting language.(Other example JavaScript)
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· Being a scripting language code of Vbscript is interpreted (lightweight programming language)
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· VBScript is a subset of Microsoft’s programming language Visual Basic
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· While it doesn’t offer the same functionality of Visual Basic, it does provide a powerful tool that can be used to add interaction to web pages.
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· It uses the Component Object Model like ADO(ActiveX) object to work with databases or File SystemObject(FSO) to work with files)
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Helping points?
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· Firstly introduced in as part of the Microsoft Windows Script Technologies, launched in 1996.
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· VBScript has been installed by default in every desktop release of MicrosoftWindows since Window98
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· It is used to write executable functions that can be part of HTML and THUS interact with the DocumentObject Model (DOM) of the page, to perform tasks not possible in HTML alone.
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· When VBScript is run on the client side, the user’s browser needs to support VBScript. When run on the server side, the server needs to support it
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