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What is a VB Script?

Hi!

I have been programming in Visual Basic for over a few years now and I have been hearing about VB Script over and over, but I never took time to look what it is.

So I have few questions:

1) What is a VB Script?
2) What is the difference between Visual Basic and VB Script?
3) What are the advantages of using VB Script over Visual Basic and vice versa?
4) What is VB Script used for? Why can't we use Visual Basic for it?
5) Where is a good place to start if I choose to learn VB Script?

Thanx in advance!

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ADSaunders

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GrahamSkan

This is the MSDN page:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/script56/html/vtoriVBScript.asp

dbrckovi

ASKER

Thats great!

Thanx guys, but one more Q.

Is there some VBScript Editor, which will add color to code, and call help for a selected keyword when I press F1 ( Like VB )?

ADSaunders

dbrckovi,
here are several syntax coloring editors available, a lot of them free, just do a google search, but check that they are set up for VB / VBscript. Here are a few:
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
http://www.pspad.com/index_en.html
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/people/cpaap/pfe/
.. Alan

dbrckovi

ASKER

Thanx again!

GrahamSkan

If you have VB you might as well use its IDE (with early binding) for most of the development and do any necessary changes (including to late binding) at the end.