Invoke VBScript from VB.NET

Hi

I classic VB6 you can place the script control on a form, load VBScript into it and excecute. You can also share objects between VB6 and VBScript. I want to achieve the same thing but with VB.NET. My objective is to write a VB.NET application that will run some queries against a database, build some object collections, load some  VBScript code and manipulate the object from VBScript. The objective is to have  configurable vbscripts to easily format the data from the object. Could someone point me to some links where I can learn soemthing about it.

Thanks

Here is a good article by .Net Developers Journal that may help you:
http://dotnet.sys-con.com/read/47761.htm
Also, here is a site with a number of VB articles:
http://www.findingfacts.com/L3/L3_2_28_33.php

I don't think you can share objects or code between VBScript and VB.NET unlike VB6.

As for running VBScript from VB.NET, you could build your own control mechanism to have VB.NET execute the selected VBScript as an external process (or shell execute), and perhaps redirect I/O to the VB.NET app. Or otherwise embed/use ActiveX control in your VB.NET app via COM interop.

To share VB.NET code with your VBScript, you have to expose your .NET code as a COM object.

To run your VBScript code in .NET, its doable but generally not worth it. Turn off option strict, and just translate the code by hand since its pretty trivial going in that direction

Or if you don't already have actual VBScript written, you could consider doing the script part in Powershell instead.