VBScript - Still Useful? Yes! With VbsEdit....

A friend of mine from school got in touch with me today to say that his company had let him loose on the servers with VBScript to automate a lot of the jobs he does - this way then get run outside of business hours...

I immediately advised him to checkout an IDE called VbsEdit - this is an awesome app for doing VBScript.

There are two huge features that make it well worth while:

1. Huge Library of samples
2. Debugging

That's right folks! You can debug VBScript! this make it an unbelievably powerful tool, and coupled with the huge library of samples you should be set to run with VBScript for life!

The library of samples contains stuff that blew my mind when I first saw them - I honestly didn't know you could so much with VBScript!

I fell in love with this tool for doing house-keeping and out-of-hours processing, automating work-flow, etc...

Since moving to a Mac, I have found that Automator fills this niche, but not completely, I still have to resort to bash or perl scripts to do some clever stuff, and at these times I miss VbsEdit for the two reasons mentioned above...

So, I just wanted to really say that VBScript is still a very useful tool for Windows users, and that if you do get into it, you should definitely try VbsEdit.

Anyway....