VBScript Book recommendations?

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Hi,

Couldn’t find any other category to put this one in… has nothing to do with sitepoint but…

Really, got to learn some VBScript for some stuff at work… Can use it into html aswel, so quite web-related aswel.

Got my eye on some books, but can’t choose.
Anyone with experience on this language? And what would you recommend? I’m kind of beginner level :cool:.

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-VBScript-Programming-Absolute-Beginner/dp/1598638033/ref=pd_sim_b_4

This one seems quite good, but much more like a reference… not to learn the basics properly I guess:
http://www.amazon.com/WSH-VBScript-Core-Jeffery-Hicks/dp/0977659747/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1288126851&sr=8-14

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My recommendation is to start here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d1wf56tt(VS.85).aspx Then if you feel the need a bit later on you can see about a book.

I would avoid using vbscript as an alternative to javascript in code for web browsers. In face, unless you really have to I’d avoid spending much time or effort on vbscript, as a language vbscript is past it’s prime and on the way out.

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I understand.
It’s not my purpose to use it for a public website.
Therefore, I only use browser compatible stuff like Javascript, which is actually more my cup of tea.

But here at work, there’s an intraweb, and we work with lots of excel sheets, statistics, data from other databases,… We work in a Windows only environment with IE only here…(not my idea), so the problem that the VBScript is not working in other browsers is not applied here :slight_smile:
We need to make html stuff that gets data out external excel sheets etc…
And no, there are no new technologies allowed in our company… :frowning: