Download wsh and vbscript files from 4th edition website

Stream" xHttp. Send with bStrm. Alex K. This works and helped me a lot, but you have to specify target name. Problem is if you want to use the original filename that was suggested by server. Racky after. Thanks works well - I just wrapped it into a function and badabing badaboom — Derrick Dennis.

At last! This code works with both http and https , side to side with the 3 other "solutions" I already checked in stackoverflow that didn't work with https. You deserve a medal!

FileSystemObject" ' Check if the specified target file or folder exists, ' and build the fully qualified path of the target file If objFSO.

ResponseBody objFile. ResponseBody, i, 1 Next ' Close the target file objFile. Close End Sub. Charles Clayton Charles Clayton If the accepted answer failed with that specific error the issue is permissions to write to the folder, which is not difficult to solve.

Requires Belus Technology's X-Base64 component. Requires Windows Media Player. Posted by Christoph Fricke on a newsgroup. Check if an update is available for Calibre eBook Management. This script assumes Calibre's bit version, you may need to edit the script for bit version. Check if the screen resolution meets a specified minimum requirement, and exit with return code 1 if not. Modify the timestamp of the specified target file s to match the specified source file's timestamp.

Use this script to modify the shortcuts in your Startup folder to prevent a "traffic jam" at login time. Delete " Local Shared Objects ", a. Use entirely at your own risk! Also available as DelFlash. Empty the recycle bin without prompting for confirmation, or remove only files older than the specified number of days.

Requires Tim Tabor's BinManager. Based on Tim Tabor's JScript sample. Display the monitor's EDID asset information. Try Holidays. Does not require Excel. Calculate dates like "what date will Wednesday week 23 be in ?

Also available as on-line PHP version Optional automatic on-the-fly update feature. Translates country codes found in the registry to their English names. Requires KiXtart 4. DLL must be registered. ALPHA version! Adapted from posts by Alex K. Angelopoulos on Developersdex. Display the currently installed MDAC version, and optionally check if it meets a required minimum version.

Also available as a class and component. We can access Active Directory with it and add users and groups without opening the Management Console. We can write and save a document in Microsoft Word in command line.

And the better of all: It does not matter the programming language that i am using. The programming language only needs to support COM access and running in a Windows environment. COM functions is better because, in general, we do not need to redistribute any 3rd party code because Windows already have it.

NET instead. We need to show the command line prompt to show progress It can't be viewed on the same window from script. Read WGET documentation! If you need to read the header from page or "Check local file version [ WGET support this function natively, but we can implement it in.

If you do not need to support Windows 9x, choose the 1st one. If we do not do that, our script will return "Access is denied. I really recommends WinHTTP, only if you do not care that your script will not run in Windows Server versions without you ask for user to change Security Settings, making the server less secure.

Then, we define two strings: strLink , that is the link that we will download, and strSaveTo , where file will be saved. After that, we change the actual folder to the folder where we want to save the file. WGet saves the file on the actual folder that we are using, than it will save the file there.

However, the WScript. As the script runs in the execution host, it has the ability to access and manipulate Windows resources, thanks to the core object model.

Windows runs a script based on the authority of the person who starts it. Therefore, your scripts have no more access to Windows and its resources than you do. If you try to create a script to perform a task that you cannot perform manually via the graphical user interface, your script will not work.

If this is the case, you might want to talk with your system administrator to see if you can be assigned additional access permissions and user rights. The two previous versions were versions 2. Depending on which operating system your computer runs, you may already have access to one of these versions of the WSH. However, if you work with other Windows operations, you may or may not have an older version of the WSH installed. Table 1. As Table 1.

Windows NT 4. However, Microsoft added its installation to Service Pack 4 for that operating system. You can install or upgrade to WSH 5. You'll find a downloadable copy of the WSH 5. The steps involved in installing the WSH or upgrading an existing version to version 5.

Microsoft originally designed VBScript to operate as a Web-scripting language. VBScript's success as a Web-scripting language has always been limited. One reason for this is that Netscape never provided support for it in its Internet browser.

In addition, from the beginning JavaScript was freely provided by Netscape, and there was a hesitation on the part of many programmers to abandon JavaScript in favor of VBScript, which Microsoft maintained as a proprietary technology, meaning that Microsoft and Microsoft alone owned and controlled VBScript. For example, it does not work with forms and frames.

Then again, as a WSH scripting language, VBScript does not need this functionality because these types of resources are beyond the scope of its environment. For example, take a look at the following VBScript:. As you can see, the script consists of just one line of code. To create this script, open your editor and type the line of code exactly as I have shown it here. Then save the script as Hello.

That's it. Now run it: First locate the folder in which you saved the script, and then double-click on it. You should see a graphical popup dialog similar to the one shown in Figure 1. Let's talk about the script that you just wrote and executed. First of all, as you executed it by double-clicking on it, you ran it using the default execution host. The default execution host is WScritp. The MsgBox function is a built-in VBScript function that you can call within your scripts to display messages in popup dialogs.

As you can see, the text "Hello World" was displayed when you ran the script. A function is a collection of statements that are called and executed as a unit. But the code itself was all VBScript.

Let's modify the script just a little bit to demonstrate how to incorporate the WScript object. The WScript object is one of a small number of objects that make up the WSH core object model I'll go over this object and the rest of the WSH core object model in greater detail in Chapter 2.

Using your editor, open the Hello. Now save the script and run it again. This time, unless you made a typo, you should see a popup dialog similar to the one shown in Figure 1. As you can see, things look pretty much the same. The same message is displayed, although the word VBScript in the popup dialog's title bar has now been replaced with the words "Windows Script Host. Don't worry if you don't fully understand everything that is covered here—it's some fairly complex stuff and you'll be better prepared to understand it by the end of Chapter 2.

For now, I'd like you to just read along with the steps I'll present, so that you'll understand the process involved in creating and executing scripts using VBScript and the WSH. First, the script uses the Set command to define a variable named WshShl.

This variable is then assigned a value using the following expression:. What this statement does is execute the WScript object's CreateObject method. This method is used to instantiate that is, create a new instance of the WshShell object, which is another WSH core object. The second line of code in the example uses the WshShell object's Popup method to display a popup dialog. It is unfortunate that they share the same name because they are very different.

As the two versions of the previous script show, there are often times when you can perform the same task using either a VBScript function or a WSH method. This script also demonstrates how easy script creation and execution can be, and how even a one- or two-line script can perform some pretty neat tricks—such as displaying popup dialogs.

In the previous example you created your first VBScript by following the steps that I set down. Often, depending on the size and complexity of the script that you're going to develop, you can get away with simply sitting down and writing the script as you go.

More often than not, though, you'll want to take a more methodical approach to script development. First, make sure that you know exactly what you want to achieve. Then break the task down into specific steps that, when combined, complete the task. Spend a little time sketching out the design of your script, and try to break the script into different sections.

Then develop a section at a time, making sure that one section works before moving on to the next. I'll try to point out ways to do this throughout the book. In the previous example you executed your script by double-clicking on it, and everything worked fine because the scripts were written so that they could run from the Windows desktop. However, sometimes the execution host that you use to run your script has a big impact on how the script operates. Let's take a look at an example.

First, open the Hello. This statement uses the WScript object's Echo method to display a text message. Save the script and execute it by double-clicking on it. The result is that the message is displayed in a popup dialog. Now copy the file to the C: drive on your computer and open a Windows Console. This command changes the current working directory to the root of the C: drive where Hello. Now type the following command and press the Enter key:.

What you see this time is quite different. Instead of a popup dialog, the script's output is written to the Windows console, as shown in Figure 1. As you see, the message produced by the script is once again displayed in a popup dialog because even though the script was run from the Windows Command prompt, the WScript.

Also like VBScript, JScript is a complete programming language replete with support for variables, conditional logic, looping, arrays, and procedures. JScript's overall syntax structure is a little more difficult to master than VBScript's, except of course if you are already familiar with JavaScript.

VBScript provides better support for arrays while JScript provides a stronger collection of mathematical functions. JScripts are created as plain text files and saved with a. Microsoft is equally committed to the continued development of both scripting languages and is working hard to make sure that both languages provide equivalent functionality. As a result, the differences between the two languages have become very small and are likely to continue to decrease.

Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. Perl is a scripting language that traces its roots to the Unix operating system.

It has been ported over to every major computer operating system. ActivePerl runs as a stand-alone language on Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems. Python is a scripting language named after the Monty Python comedy troupe.