Classes moved to VBA, but upgrading and testing is unavoidable With the end of Windows 10 looming, Microsoft has reminded ...

Microsoft first announced plans to retire the Visual Basic Scripting language in 2023, giving developers and organizations ample time to prepare. The company is now reiterating ...

Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. The company today (May 30) detailed how the phase-out will occur in three stages, the final ...

Microsoft announced today that it will start deprecating VBScript in the second half of 2024 by making it an on-demand feature until it's completely removed. Features on Demand (FODs) are optional ...

A facility within Windows that executes VBScript and JScript, which are Microsoft's ActiveX scripting languages. Via the installation of additional scripting engines, Windows Script Host (WSH) can ...

Microsoft is moving ahead with its plan to eradicate VBScript from the web. On August 13, 2019, in the next Patch Tuesday update, the company will disable the technology by default on Internet ...

In a nutshell: VBScript is an active scripting language that's been part of Windows history since Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack, and Windows CE. Now, after 25 years on the market, the ...

Learn about the features in Windows Script Host and its native scripting engines, VBScript and JScript, that make automating just about any Windows task a snap. Are you a big batch file advocate? If ...

Microsoft Windows 10 users will surely be frustrated with the operating system's eventual October 14 demise, but there's an ...

This month, I'll continue my series on Windows Script Components. Last month, we used the Windows Script Component Wizard to create our very first Windows Script Component (WSC). The wizard handled ...

Click to viewEveryone's got a virtual junk drawer, that folder where you save downloads, email attachments, and disposable files you only need access to temporarily. Problem is, these files can build ...