DevGuru VBScript Quick Reference Best of the Net
If only Microsoft could be as well organized and convenient as this! The DevGuru VBScript Quick Reference shows you all the "Functions, Statements, Operators, Constants and Objects" for VBScript and further displays the "Methods, Events, and Properties". Keep this one close at hand!

Microsoft Main Script Page
The main entry for all of Microsoft's scripting technology. Click on the link for VBScript to see Microsoft's documentation. Ready to use the "Best of the Net" DevGuru documentation now? Well ... anyway, Microsoft is authoritative.

VBScript Tutorial
Here's a great tutorial that introduces you to VBScript. It includes syntax, operators, and code examples. Just the thing for the experienced programmer who just hasn't happened to work with VBScript before.

Error Checking in VBScript
Error Checking is one of those things that separates the amateur productions from really professional jobs. This page introduces you to how it is done for VBScript. The code involved is reasonably extensive, but quality has its price!

Using VBScript For More Than IE and ASP
This Microsoft article is titled, "If It Moves, Script It". That's their way of telling you that VBScript can be used for a lot more than web page automation. To quote MS, "Any application that supports Microsoft Windows Script can use these languages." This is a good summary of what those applications are.

Explaining Visual Studio for Applications
VBScript is a big hit for Microsoft. And if something works for them, they figure out how to sell it. VSA is is how they plan on doing that. Using selected business partners, they're opening up VBScript - in it's latest .NET supporting version - to other software vendors for their applications. Here's an interview with the Microsoft managers in charge of the project.

Linking Office and the Web Via Script
Microsoft loves to put out articles that demonstrate how to integrate several of their technologies in one application. This one manages to put Active Server Pages (ASP) technology, Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), SQL Server, and Microsoft Word 2000 all in one system. Take something for an upset stomach after digesting this one.

VBScript and Regular Expressions
If you're a Unix guru, "regular expressions" may be very familiar to you. If not, they're more likely a subject of mystery and confusion. Here's a Microsoft article that clears them up and puts them in a VBScript context.

Generating Random Passwords with VBScript
Here's a great first application for VBScript. The code to generate random passwords isn't too difficult, but it still does something that is real and useful. Includes code and explanation in a short article.

Using ADO with VBScript
VBScript and ADO - Microsoft's current technology for access data and databases - are not often thought of as working together since ADO is associated with intensive business applications and VBScript is often thought of in terms of lighter weight interfacing code. This article shows how they CAN be used together.