Windows Script Host - Edition 2000 - Tim Hill

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Résumé :
Windows Script Host is a language-independent scripting host for 32-bit Windows platforms.

It includes both VBScript and JScript scripting engines. Native to NT/2000, this powerful tool is designed to automate administration tasks and applications, reducing the time and effort necessary to maintain a network. Written for system and network administrators, Windows Script Host includes :
- Authoritative coverage of the VBScript language essentials, including script structure and statements
- Detailed discussion of the object-oriented paradigm, how it is used in Windows system scripting, and how to employ COM objects
- Program guides that provide additional insight for those who are new to programming
- Proven, ready-to-use scripting solutions, including sample logon and system management scripts

If you design or administer Windows NT/2000 networks, Windows Script Host is an essential resource to help you implement system scripting across your network. This comprehensive reference will help you :
- Install system scripting components on your network
- Automate or simplify system management tasks, ranging from copying files to monitoring a set of enterprise servers
- Create your own COM objects in VBScript through the use of Windows Script Components
- Get immediate results by employing proven sample scripts

Biographie:
Tim Hill is a software and OS developer with more than 20 years of experience in systems software and operating system architectures. He has designed several real-time operating systems, including RMOS and PKS, the latter of which has been used extensively in mission-critical embedded systems, including ATMs and banking automation systems. After developing millions of lines of system-critical code, Tim is convinced that the best way to develop software is to leave the bugs out. After a number of years of consulting on all aspects of Windows NT development and architectural issues, Tim has recently joined Microsoft, where he is working on new systems based upon Windows NT technologies.

Tim is also the author of the best-selling Windows NT Shell Scripting (MTP, 1998), which has received critical acclaim from readers, as well as the press.

Sommaire:
WSH AND THE VBSCRIPT LANGUAGE

• Introducing WSH
• VBScript Language Essentials
• VBScript Data Storage
• Built-In Functions
• User-Defined Procedures

• Introducing Objects
• Built-In WSH and VBScript Objects
• File System Objects
• Creating VBScript Classes
• Windows Script Components

• A Script Developer's Toolkit
• Logon Scripts
• System Management Scripts
• Miscellaneous Scripts