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Summary: Ok, but Dino Esposito can do better.
Review: Dino Esposito is one of the best on using and teaching the Microsoft technologies. With this book, he did a good job, but from Dino I was expecting something better. Too many pages are spent describing how to use a COM object that is not part of the WSH. He also underestimates the use of WSH for tasks that are not for system administration. Anyway, using this book I was able to understand how to use WSH, when WSH is the best tool to solve a problem and when it is not.
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Summary: Highlites MS's scripting vision so well
Review: Dino is a gifted technical writer. Check out his articles at MSDN. I came to this book for remote scripting needs in an intranet project. What I found was the best presentation of the current state of MS's vision for scripting technologies - way beyond where I thought they were going. The usage of elementary XML with WSH indicates how pervasive and committed MS is to developing their scripting platform. This is a must read for any MS developer as well as motivated non-programming NT Administrators who want to control their Windows environment.J Stivers MCSD MSDBA IBM Midrange Systems and Programming Professional
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Summary: A must have book for developers, sys admins, & power users
Review: Great book for learning WSH and its associated object models. This book has an emphaisis on creating reuable code, using both WSH 1 & 2. Dino Esposito also gives us some shell extensions he has written in VB & C++.
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Summary: Windows automation we were waiting for
Review: I appreciated Mr. Esposito's deep knowledge of WSH and his tipically italian colloquial style. No other book I read about WSH was so clear and rich of detailed advices about system management, task automation and COM. The custom components included inspire you to do more and more through COM: I seamlessly found myself "scripting" on windows the same things that previously I could afford only on my Unix systems, and in a native language. Together with a good VB and JS language reference, this book is a MUST for every windows system administrator.
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Summary: Not quite a reference book, not quite an instruction book
Review: I expected it to be a reference guide, but it really requires a lot of deduction to pull anything together. The book isn't clear on which version of the WSH it is using, doesn't provide usage code examples for all listed commands in both Java Script and VBScript, and either lightly touches upon, or completely skips major concepts. It reads pretty dry, and really should make the source code readily available right in the book, instead of having to navigate through Wrox's site to find it. Might be a good "additional information" type book once you buy and read a real instructional or reference book for the WSH.
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Summary: This book is the Rosetta Stone of MS Component Technology
Review: I have spent months and many bucks trying to learn how to create com objects for WinNT. This book gave me both the information and the insight to create, debug and run simple WSC and ASP components written in VBScript in less than 3 hours from the time I realized that such a thing was possible. Finding out about WSH 2.0 has made me a Microsoft NT Zealot and quite possibly created a monster. We'll see :-). In any event, I think I have written my last ksh script.
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Summary: Strangely, a good jump-off point to COM
Review: I originaly bought this book for a quick intro to scripting Active X objects for a particular project, but soon found myself open to the possibilities of creating COM objects, which I wasn't expecting. Serendipity is a good thing. Anyone writing code for Windows platforms should get up to speed on this and the WSH is a easy way to do it. Mr. Esposito's style is very easy to follow, and I could actually get some personality from the text-- unusual for a programming book. WSH will inspire you to script and control EVERYTHING on your NT network. Interesting book at a good price.
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Summary: Excellent, Mr. Esposito. Excellent.
Review: I was very impressed with the WSH coverage and the examples. In addition, the downloadable source code and dlls provide a great WSH toolkit for WSH programmers. I've used the WshKit described in the book on several projects now and have made a few of my own extensions to it. The tools and ideas presented in the book are a great addition to Microsoft's online help. I think that one nice thing to have added to this book is for every example done in VBScript, the same example should have been provided in JScript (and vice versa). This would have been nice for those people just learning scripting because they want to have batch file capability. At any rate, I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Excellent, Mr. Esposito. Excellent.
Review: I was very impressed with the WSH coverage and the examples. In addition, the downloadable source code and dlls provide a great WSH toolkit for WSH programmers. I've used the WshKit described in the book on several projects now and have made a few of my own extensions to it. The tools and ideas presented in the book are a great addition to Microsoft's online help. I think that one nice thing to have added to this book is for every example done in VBScript, the same example should have been provided in JScript (and vice versa). This would have been nice for those people just learning scripting because they want to have batch file capability. At any rate, I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Good Programmer's Reference
Review: If the WSH has a capability not covered in this book, have have yet to encounter it (and I use WSH each day). This is not a reference for vbscript or jscript; this is a generic programming guide to using the WSH. If you know one or more activex scripting languages, get this book. Easy reading; few mistakes (remember: it's not .ws, it's .wsf by default).
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