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Is Microsoft discontinuing VBScript?
Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:06 PM
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Hi, This may be an old question based on unconfirmed rumors :) but the main product of my company provides VBScript for its users to automate some of their tasks. If MS is discontinuing VBScript we will most probably need to change our scripting language as well. Can anyone provide some pointers on the web where it can be confirmed whether MS is discontinuing support for VBScript or not? So far I have found an MSDN blog by Eric Lippert (a senior design engineer at MS) where he stated categorically that MS is not discontinuing support for VBScript in the foreseeable future. However, that blog is one year old. Thanks and regards
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RE: Is Microsoft discontinuing VBScript?
Thursday, June 19, 2008 6:10 PM
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A correction: the blog entry mentioned in my previous post is 4 years old not 1 year old.
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RE: Is Microsoft discontinuing VBScript?
Thursday, June 19, 2008 11:21 PM
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This was rumored a while ago, before the release of Vista. While MS has released powershell they have not discontinued Vbscript. They included it with Vista and have since released an upgrade for XP. just like cmd prompt/bat files vbscript is used by way to many people to do away with it anytime soon.
Mike For useful Scripting links see the Read Me First stickey! Always remember Search is your friend.
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RE: Is Microsoft discontinuing VBScript?
Friday, June 20, 2008 2:51 AM
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A couple of co-workers came back from TechEd and said that this year they did not see VBScript related workshops as in previous years....they said it appeared MS is pushing PowerShell a bit more now. Like mbouchard said though....there's too many scripts out there people depend on that use VBScript....PowerShell is still not part of the client OS by default so it would be hard for it to takes its place any time soon.
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RE: Is Microsoft discontinuing VBScript?
Saturday, June 21, 2008 2:50 AM
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#1 - VBScript will no longer be updated. Microsoft expects you to use VB. NET or PowerShell instead #2 - There will still be bugfixes and WSH support due to the large number of people who still use this technology. #3 - JScript is a stable scripting language to move to if you're paranoid. Worst case scenario, you can compile JScript into an exe to do the same work as before.
To iterate is human, to recurse divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch
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