WSHOM.ocx Documentation and help

[JackFrost]

Hi all,

I recently read an article on the Windows Scripting Host Object Model
(WSHOM) in a back issue of Visual Studios Journal from 2000. As it gives me
a useful and easy way to access all of the registry instead of just the VB
and VBA registry branch, as GetSettings(...) does; I can't find any useful
documentation on it. There is a section on Microsoft's web site, but it
isn't the detailed listing of properties, methods and arguments that I need.
Also it's not listed in "VB & VBA in a nutshell". Can anyone help and
provide some documentation for this feature, or tell me where to find it, as
an extensive Google didn't reveal anything useful.

Regards,

JackFrost

[mayayana]

WSHOM.OCX is not really documented in itself.
The objects in it are documented in the Windows
Script Host CHM file, the main ones being WScript.Shell
(which has the Registry functions), Network, Shortcut
and Environment.

WScript.Shell is a poor way to access the Registry.
It only handles reading, writing and deleting single
values and keys. (On WinNT it can't delete a key
with subkeys and it can't be used to read values
with certain characters, such as a backslash.)
Also, WScript.Shell cannot enumerate keys or values.

There may also be cases where people have removed
WSHOM.OCX. Some network administrators consider the
Windows Script Host to be an unnecessary security risk.

There are Registry samples and classes available from
the VB expert sites that you can use. If you really want
to look into WScript.Shell see these script samples:

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.html

There's a download of WScript.Shell samples there.
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JackFrost <ag**********@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cJ*******************@fe1.news.blueyonder.co. uk...

Hi all,

I recently read an article on the Windows Scripting Host Object Model
(WSHOM) in a back issue of Visual Studios Journal from 2000. As it gives me a useful and easy way to access all of the registry instead of just the VB
and VBA registry branch, as GetSettings(...) does; I can't find any useful documentation on it. There is a section on Microsoft's web site, but it
isn't the detailed listing of properties, methods and arguments that I need. Also it's not listed in "VB & VBA in a nutshell". Can anyone help and
provide some documentation for this feature, or tell me where to find it, as an extensive Google didn't reveal anything useful.

Regards,

JackFrost

[JackFrost]

Cheers for that, I'll look it up.

I already have a way of accessing the registry through the cRegistry.cls
from VBAccelerator (www.vbaccelerator.com). But was hoping that there might
be a way that didn't include having to package it into a program or as a
separate dll.

The ability to add scripting to a VB program, so that I can extend it's
functionality at a later date without needing to recompile was interesting
(I know there will be a hit on performance, but if it runs barely adequately
on this generation of machines, it should be fine on the next). As we are
going to be finally moving to VB.Net soon (If I keep kicking my boss hard
enough) I'd like to limit the number of platforms that the team has to
maintain, so adding scripting now might be an advantage.

JackFrost
"mayayana" <ma**********@mindYYspring.com> wrote in message
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WSHOM.OCX is not really documented in itself.
The objects in it are documented in the Windows
Script Host CHM file, the main ones being WScript.Shell
(which has the Registry functions), Network, Shortcut
and Environment.

WScript.Shell is a poor way to access the Registry.
It only handles reading, writing and deleting single
values and keys. (On WinNT it can't delete a key
with subkeys and it can't be used to read values
with certain characters, such as a backslash.)
Also, WScript.Shell cannot enumerate keys or values.

There may also be cases where people have removed
WSHOM.OCX. Some network administrators consider the
Windows Script Host to be an unnecessary security risk.

There are Registry samples and classes available from
the VB expert sites that you can use. If you really want
to look into WScript.Shell see these script samples:

http://www.jsware.net/jsware/scripts.html

There's a download of WScript.Shell samples there.
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JackFrost <ag**********@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cJ*******************@fe1.news.blueyonder.co. uk...

Hi all,

I recently read an article on the Windows Scripting Host Object Model
(WSHOM) in a back issue of Visual Studios Journal from 2000. As it gives

me

a useful and easy way to access all of the registry instead of just the

VB and VBA registry branch, as GetSettings(...) does; I can't find any

useful

documentation on it. There is a section on Microsoft's web site, but it
isn't the detailed listing of properties, methods and arguments that I

need.

Also it's not listed in "VB & VBA in a nutshell". Can anyone help and
provide some documentation for this feature, or tell me where to find

it, as

an extensive Google didn't reveal anything useful.

Regards,

JackFrost