Work this end (XP). Create a new file, call it test.vbs. Put this in it. WScript.Sleep 1000 MsgBox “TEST” Run it, notice the delay before the message box is shown. Note, the number is in Milliseconds, so 1000 is 1 second.
follow http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896456 To start a 32-bit command prompt, follow these steps: * Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\SysWoW64\cmd.exe, and then click OK. Then type cscript vbscriptfile.vbs
You can escape by doubling the quotes g=”abcd “”” & a & “””” or write an explicit chr() call g=”abcd ” & chr(34) & a & chr(34)
There are VBA methods to zip and unzip using the windows built in compression as well, which should give some insight as to how the system operates. You may be able to build these methods into a scripting language of your choice. The basic principle is that within windows you can treat a zip file … Read more
It basically tells the program when you encounter an error just continue at the next line.
To be safe, you should use the proper APIs in Powershell (or VBScript) Using PowerShell: [Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”) Copy something using Powershell: Copy-Item $home\*.txt ([Environment]::GetFolderPath(“Desktop”)) Here is a VBScript-example to get the desktop path: dim WSHShell, desktop, pathstring, objFSO set objFSO=CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Set WSHshell = CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) desktop = WSHShell.SpecialFolders(“Desktop”) pathstring = objFSO.GetAbsolutePathName(desktop) WScript.Echo pathstring
VB uses a so-called “reference counting” garbage collector. Basically, the moment a variable goes out of scope, the reference counter on the referenced object is decremented. When you assign the object reference to another variable, the reference counter is incremented. When the counter reaches zero, the object is ready for garbage collection. The object resources … Read more
In .NET, you could extract just the digits from the string. Using Linq like this: string justNumbers = new String(text.Where(Char.IsDigit).ToArray()); Don’t forget to include using System.Linq
Keep in mind that Classic ASP includes JScript as well as VBScript. Interestingly, you can parse JSON using JScript and use the resulting objects directly in VBScript. Therefore, it is possible to use the canonical https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/blob/master/json2.js in server-side code with zero modifications. Of course, if your JSON includes any arrays, these will remain JScript arrays … Read more
Easiest way without using Win32 shell functions is to simply launch explorer.exe with the /select parameter. For example, launching the process explorer.exe /select,”C:\Folder\subfolder\file.txt” will open a new explorer window to C:\Folder\subfolder with file.txt selected. If you wish to do it programmatically without launching a new process, you’ll need to use the shell function SHOpenFolderAndSelectItems, which … Read more