VBScript Professional Projects

Summary

Microsoft's VBScript, a simplified version of Visual Basic, is a powerful, easy-to-learn tool that can add interaction to Web pages. VBScript Professional Projects distinguishes itself from the competition by being the only book to offer a project-based approach for higher-end users and to provide coverage of VBScript's applicability to both Web and WSH scripting. It is the ideal guide for VBA and Visual Basic programmers who wish to expand their programming capabilities using a scripting language.

Table of Contents

Part I - Introducing Microsoft VBScript

Chapter 1: What Is VBScript?

Chapter 2: Errors, Constants, and Variables

Chapter 3: Conditional Logic and Iterative Structures

Chapter 4: Procedures

Chapter 5: Arrays

Chapter 6: Data Collection, Notification, and Error Reporting

Chapter 7: VBScript Objects

Chapter 8: VBScript and Internet Explorer

Chapter 9: VBScript and the WSH

Part II Professional Projects 1: Desktop Administration Using VBScript and the WSH

Chapter 10: Project Case Study: Desktop Customization and Deployment

Chapter 11: Customizing the Desktop

Chapter 12: Customizing the Start Menu and Quick Launch Toolbar

Chapter 13: Scheduling Disk Maintenance

Chapter 14: Mapping Network Printers and Disks

Chapter 15: Creating Administrator Accounts

Part III Professional Project 2: Analyzing Application Logs

Chapter 16: Project Case Study: Analyzing Application Logs

Chapter 17: Using Configuration Files to Control Script Execution

Chapter 18: Developing Script Log Analyzers

Chapter 19: Scheduling Script Execution

Chapter 20: Maintaining a 30-Day Summary Log Archive

Part IV Professional Project 3: Creating a Centralized Report Management Station

Chapter 21: Project Case Study: Creating a Centralized Report Management Station

Chapter 22: Developing a Setup Script

Chapter 23: Collecting Remote Summary Reports

Chapter 24: Processing and Consolidating Report Data

Chapter 25: Archive Management

Part V Professional Project 4: Reporting Application Summary Data via the Web

Chapter 26: Reporting Application Summary Data via the Web

Chapter 27: Designing the Web Site 28 Building the Web Sites Main Page

Chapter 29: Building the Registration and Configuration Settings Page

Chapter 30: Converting Reports to HTML Pages

Chapter 31: Building the Report Archive Page

Chapter 32: Report Distribution and Remote Archive Management

Appendix A: Windows XP Command Reference

Appendix B: Whats on the Companion Web Site