Script Creation

ActiveX Scripting engines (languages and interpreters) provided by Microsoft are VBScript (Visual Basic Scripting Edition) and JScript (Microsoft’s implementation of the ECMAScript standard, similar to Netscape’s JavaScript). The ActiveX Scripting standard allows third parties to develop their own ActiveX Scripting engines, and engines are already available on PC platforms for Python and PERL.

Note:

In UNIX and Linux, only VBScript and JScript are available.

To download the latest version of the Microsoft scripting engines, VBScript documentation, Jscript documentation, and the Microsoft Script Debugger, use the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads

Type 'script' in the search box, and click 'Go' to find all script downloads.

ActiveX Scripting hosts are applications that allow scripting by means of ActiveX Scripting engines. Current examples include Internet Explorer, Internet Information Server (IIS), the Visual C++ development environment, and Windows Scripting Host (WSH). The application is an ActiveX Scripting host. In general, an ActiveX Scripting host can make use of any ActiveX Scripting engine that the user has installed.