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Hi,

Sorry for this dumb question. Is there a difference between VB language
and VB scripting? I need to buy a beginners VB scripting book, I just
don't want to pickup the wrong one.

Thanks.

Jul 17 '05 #1
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"Kelly" <ke***@invalid.com> wrote

Sorry for this dumb question. Is there a difference between VB language
and VB scripting? I need to buy a beginners VB scripting book, I just
don't want to pickup the wrong one.


Yes there is a difference. There are significant language differences,
but more importantly, the types of products you work with varies
greatly. With VB you would plan to write Windows programs
that converse with other Windows applications or components.
With VB Script, you are creating smaller tasks that run in a web
browser, or are hosted in the Window's shell (something like batch
files). As such the types of tasks you'd be doing, and the components
you'd be working with are different. For that reason it would be
best to be sure to get the right book so that it might cover the
things you are more likely to run into....

LFS


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Jul 17 '05 #2
VBScript Programmer's Reference (Wrox) has a full
listing of what's different between VB and VBS. There
are actually few differences in actual keywords. But that
doesn't matter much in picking a book. It depends more
on what you want it for. General windows scripting, ASP,
DHTML, or network admin. are all very different uses
of VBS where, although the language is the same, the
usage is likely to be quite different. The challenge won't
be keeping track of things like Instr() and Mid(), which are
mainly the same except without data typing. Rather, the
research you have to do is more likely to be in finding and
learning the COM objects you need for what you want to do.
In other words, if you were doing DHTML, for instance,
an IE DOM reference would come in handy far more than
a VBS reference.

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Hi,

Sorry for this dumb question. Is there a difference between VB language
and VB scripting? I need to buy a beginners VB scripting book, I just
don't want to pickup the wrong one.

Thanks.

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