Vista - Reference book recommendation

I'm a newbie to VBScript. I have "VBScript Programmer's Reference - 3rd
edition" which is OK as a learning book but not too good as a reference
book. Any suggestions for a good reference book for looking up functions,
using Windows objects, etc.?

Brian

"BrianB" <brian@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OcYp01%23SJHA.1148@xxxxxxI don't know of any reference book for VBScript and all the objects you
might find on a windows system that VBScript can instantiate and use.
Microsoft's scripting help file covers both VBScript and JScript, and its
search process does not allow you to specify only VBScript-related results.
You might go to
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/a...displaylang=en and
search for the two words: chm vbscript; you should get a list of three help
files. The scripting help file is probably already on your computer, and
you may find the other two files useful. All three are searchable, but only
for things that were indexed as part of building the help files. These
should all be helpful for things related to the VBScript language and a few
heavily used objects like the shell object and the file system object and
VBScript's version of a regular expression object.

Other objects are too numerous and diverse to be well documented in any one
place. Installation of objects usually includes installation of a typelib
which contains a limited amount of info the object and its properties,
methods, events, etc; the info is only as complete as the typelib coder made
it. Script editors range in price from free to hundreds of dollars; even
some free editors may include an object browser that can give you some
information about objects in a script. VBSEdit has such a free edition. A
dedicated object browser may give you more information. TLViewer is one
free example. The VBA editor included with most MS Office applications also
has an object browser. I like TLViewer.

Microsoft has extensive documentation online for the object models for
common objects included with the Windows OS that can be very handy when
manipulated through VBScripts, such as the IE browser, HTAs, ADO
(databases), WMI, and others for administrative purposes. Search MSDN for
things of interest.

-Paul Randall