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  • Kelly

    visual basic language and scripting

    Hi,

    Sorry for this dumb question. Is there a difference between VB language
    and VB scripting? I need to buy a beginners VB scripting book, I just
    don't want to pickup the wrong one.

    Thanks.

  • Larry Serflaten

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    Re: visual basic language and scripting


    "Kelly" <kelly@invalid. com> wrote[color=blue]
    >
    > Sorry for this dumb question. Is there a difference between VB language
    > and VB scripting? I need to buy a beginners VB scripting book, I just
    > don't want to pickup the wrong one.[/color]

    Yes there is a difference. There are significant language differences,
    but more importantly, the types of products you work with varies
    greatly. With VB you would plan to write Windows programs
    that converse with other Windows applications or components.
    With VB Script, you are creating smaller tasks that run in a web
    browser, or are hosted in the Window's shell (something like batch
    files). As such the types of tasks you'd be doing, and the components
    you'd be working with are different. For that reason it would be
    best to be sure to get the right book so that it might cover the
    things you are more likely to run into....

    LFS




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    • mayayana

      #3
      Re: visual basic language and scripting

      VBScript Programmer's Reference (Wrox) has a full
      listing of what's different between VB and VBS. There
      are actually few differences in actual keywords. But that
      doesn't matter much in picking a book. It depends more
      on what you want it for. General windows scripting, ASP,
      DHTML, or network admin. are all very different uses
      of VBS where, although the language is the same, the
      usage is likely to be quite different. The challenge won't
      be keeping track of things like Instr() and Mid(), which are
      mainly the same except without data typing. Rather, the
      research you have to do is more likely to be in finding and
      learning the COM objects you need for what you want to do.
      In other words, if you were doing DHTML, for instance,
      an IE DOM reference would come in handy far more than
      a VBS reference.

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      Kelly <kelly@invalid. com> wrote in message
      news:1C18c.1361 1$A_2.735600@ne ws20.bellglobal .com...[color=blue]
      > Hi,
      >
      > Sorry for this dumb question. Is there a difference between VB language
      > and VB scripting? I need to buy a beginners VB scripting book, I just
      > don't want to pickup the wrong one.
      >
      > Thanks.
      >[/color]


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