VBScript, or Visual Basic Scripting, is a scripting language developed by Microsoft to help developers write scripts that interact with its products. VBScript is mainly used with Internet Explorer.

Many commercial Web sites use the VBScript language to create flexible, dynamic pages. In some applications, such as a site that lets you download business documents, a VBScript-based Web page ...

This is probably a pretty straight-forward answer, but I can't figure out how to do this for the life of me. <BR><BR>I'm writing a gui program that does a few different functions pertaining to files, ...

More fun with VB and APIs In this sample, we used the SHFileOperation API to send a specified file to the Recycle Bin, allowing users to restore files if necessary. Next time, we will look at some ...

I have a vbscript that deletes a couple of .exe files on a file server and then replaces them with newer versions. The problem is that people tend to keep the files open instead of closing them when ...

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On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...