VBScript is a proprietary scripting language from Microsoft that works with Internet Explorer and browsers based on its engine. It allows interaction with users, data validation, and mathematical calculations. It is easy to learn for those with prior knowledge of Visual Basic or VBA and is used for client-side and server-side processing in ASP. It does not support file input/output or user interface functions and does not have explicitly declared data types for faster runtime performance.
Visual Basic Scripting Edition, or VBScript, from Microsoft Corporation is a computer scripting language that allows active scripting in a wide variety of environments. This includes web server scripting and web client scripting. Code is placed on web pages with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) or Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) tags.
The proprietary language was designed by Microsoft to work in coordination with Internet Explorer® (IE) and browsers based on the IE engine. It doesn’t work in other web browsers. This language is not popular with some users, due to its proprietary nature, and many people prefer to learn a non-proprietary language that works in all browsers.
VBScript allows the web page to interact with the guest. The code can ask the guest for her name and print personalized and personalized messages on the web page. VBScript can also validate user-entered data. For example, on a particular web page where certain fields are filled in, it can detect if all the data has been filled in. VBScript can also be used to perform a variety of mathematical calculations, from simple equations to complex arithmetic formulas.
The language is a division of Visual Basic and is used on the Web as a client-side scripting language and server-side processing in Active Server Pages (ASP). VBScript is considered easy for those with prior knowledge of Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). This is because the language has inherited many features from the two. Some of these features include string manipulation, support for math operations, flow control, arrays, data conversion, and date/time functions. VBScript doesn’t offer the same functionality as Visual Basic, but it does provide an easy-to-learn tool that can be used to add interaction to web pages.
VBScript was designed for use with web applications, so it does not support file input/output and user interface functions. However, local files and folders can be manipulated. Also, VBScript does not support explicitly declared data types, which helps speed up the runtime performance of the VBScript scripting engine.
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