How-To VBScript

For cases when you need to execute a VBS script (*.vbs file) as admin with elevated privileges you can try the following snippet. This can be done by running ShellExecute and setting the runas flag to run an executable or to run an entire script (batch file or VBScript)...

This is in continuation to the last post where we saw how to read windows environment variables using VBScript. As mentioned in the last post, we can use the following preferred methods to achieve this : Using the WSH Shell object Using WMI's Win32_Environment class In the below example...

Reading an environment variable is simple. There are a couple of methods available to do this but the main preferred ones are the below two : Using the WSH Shell object Using WMI's Win32_Environment class In the below example we would be using the WSH Shell's Environment method. For 'envVarType',...

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) provides two methods for loading XML documents into the Document Object Model (DOM) and one method and one property for serializing that object model back into an XML stream. The load and loadXML methods parse documents into a DOM. You can use the load method to load an XML file by...