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Summary: Pretty Good Reference Book
Review: I bought this book because I was getting into ASP development and needed to learn the basics of VBScript. The first part of the book does a great job of teaching the student. It spells out variables, loops, etc. all the basics. It provided me with a firm foundation for future development in ASP.
I give this book a 4-star rating because I did not have utility for the remainder of the book detailing information on Windows Scripting.
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Summary: Index is Incomplete... Very Hard to find things
Review: I bought this book because there was nothing more recent and I figured it was a Wrox book so it should be complete.However, the Index is very small and incomplete. Very poor work. I could not find the Trim Function in the index and there are probally a lot more topics I won't be able to find over time in the index. For a reference book, the index should be very complete and this one isn't. The other readers are correct, you can't find Functions in the index. You should be able to find simple and difficult topics for a reference book in the index and this one doesn't fit the bill. Seems like this book was poorly edited and produced so it could make a deadline.
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Summary: Terrific Reference
Review: I challange you to find a more comprehensive book on VBScript! This did the trick and solved several problems/issues that I had been having (all of them very complex) when dealing with VBScript in HTML (and ASP for that matter). The only problem I had was with the index, which could have been more complete. This book is presented as a tutorial (even written to some degree as a tutorial), but it's usefulness is as a reference (and a pretty advanced one I might add). Well worth the purchase price.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I have read VBScript Programmer's Reference. I would to congratulate the team who put this book together. Its so well written I was programming within the day. Not just a "Hello World" program but a program of substance that opened files, validated them, wrote events in the event log etc.
The book is easy to follow and the short introduction to programming most useful for non-programmers like me and my team.
Unfortunately, for me, the book will lead to more work for me and my team of technical mainframe support staff converting mainframe legacy JCL to VBScript. I will be ordering two more copies of the book for my team and I am sure that they will gain much from it.
Even after a few days, members of staff from programming teams keep borrowing the book I am now forced to lie about its location (under my desk).
If I had a criticism I would say that Cscript should be covered in a little more detail, but its only minor point and I found the information I was looking for on the Web.
I bought 3 books on VBScript, the others are not bad books but they are written with a rocket scientist in mind and assume that the reader is competent in programming and modern scripting techniques. Thankfully your book saved the day and I actually enjoyed reading it. I get the impression that the team that put it together also enjoyed that task, it seems to come across in the text anyways. Its a great book.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I have read VBScript Programmer's Reference. I would to congratulate the team who put this book together. Its so well written I was programming within the day. Not just a "Hello World" program but a program of substance that opened files, validated them, wrote events in the event log etc.
The book is easy to follow and the short introduction to programming most useful for non-programmers like me and my team.
Unfortunately, for me, the book will lead to more work for me and my team of technical mainframe support staff converting mainframe legacy JCL to VBScript. I will be ordering two more copies of the book for my team and I am sure that they will gain much from it.
Even after a few days, members of staff from programming teams keep borrowing the book I am now forced to lie about its location (under my desk).
If I had a criticism I would say that Cscript should be covered in a little more detail, but its only minor point and I found the information I was looking for on the Web.
I bought 3 books on VBScript, the others are not bad books but they are written with a rocket scientist in mind and assume that the reader is competent in programming and modern scripting techniques. Thankfully your book saved the day and I actually enjoyed reading it. I get the impression that the team that put it together also enjoyed that task, it seems to come across in the text anyways. Its a great book.
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Summary: Maybe you missed this...
Review: I just got a new job where I will use lots of VBscript. So needing a reference I turned to this book. I've found it to be very easy to understand and helpful thus far. I have read the other reviews and found them helpful, if not very current. Wrox HAS published an index to Appendix A, where ALL the functions and subs are listed.
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Summary: Good for learning programming and VBscript from ground up
Review: I wanted to learn VB script so I bought:
-Vbscript in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference
-Vbscript Programmer's Reference
-Learning Vbscript (Nutshell Handbook)
-Visual Basic 6 form the ground up (due to shortage of vbscript books) The only book that took me from some background in programming to a better understanding of programmng and being able to solve problems using VBscript was the book: Vbscript Programmer's Reference It wasn't perfect, for my needs I would have liked more info on OLE, automation and object models. I needed to learn VBscript to write scripts for Softimage XSI and Photoshop accessing their object models, OLE and this was the only book that taught me VBscript and how I might approach certain tasks. The other books are as the titles imply nutshell books, but are really reference in a nutshell. They say what things are but do not take you through any steps to learn how to use them or better understand through use what they are. They are typically written by those who know but don't understand how to teach to soemone who knows little or nothing. These authors would write a dictionary to teach you english. Now that I know better what I am doing I have no reason to reference these poorly written books and still reference the Vbscript Programmer's Reference Book. The other books were hardly looked at past the first few chapters, and were a waste of money and time, especially the O'Reilly books. Vbscript Programmer's Reference Book is decent for a begineer to pre-intermediate programmer, wish there were more on VBscript.
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Summary: Can't judge this book by its cover...
Review: I was looking for a good "reference" book on VBScript that would cover each function, their methods, properties, etc. While this book does indeed contain this information, its only 100 of its 800 pages (in an non-indexed appendix). It tries to be a little bit of everything (COM, ASP, browser controls to name a few), but doesn't excel at any of its topics. For example, there is a 16 page chapter on using COM components in MTS (this is supposed to be a Visual Basic Script reference guide remember!) This is a topic that can't even be introduced in 16 pages. The book almost seems like outtakes from books that never quite made it to print. If you're looking for a good VB script reference, this isn't it.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I was looking for a VBScript reference book for work. One which I could use to look up a command/function in the index and find examples of the syntax within the book. In this respect the book was a total let down.
I would consider this book to be a good introduction to the capabilities of VBScript, since it covers a wide variety of VBS topics (though not with much detail).
Don't let the title fool you -- this is anything but a Programmer's Reference. Even fairly basic functions like left, mid and right are not found in the index.
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Summary: Excellent Book !
Review: I'm new in programming and these book it's perfect for me ! It explain clearly all the steps you need to know to be a great like pro programmer. If you're new in programming buy this one !
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