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Windows Script Host
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Author: Timothy Hill, Tim Hill
List Price: $35.00
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ISBN: 1578701392
Publisher: Que (22 October, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 51,820
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 3 out of 5
Very limited in focus. Incomplete in some areas.
This book was ok but was very limited in scope. The IIS section is incomplete and is missing scripting for a few technologies. IMO, this book seems to focus on scriptable methods of common GUI admin tasks. I was expecting more coverage of how to script admin tasks that are not available in the Operating System. A book with a reference section of common or admin related commands (or reference info like in his basic shell scripting book execellent reference by the way!) would needs to be added. Sometimes admins need to create custom solutions not available in the Operating System and this subject would be an excellent addition to this book. This Book is a good reference to see how the flow of given code examples are written but falls way short in the overall administration field. I'd see if there was another book on the market.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Deceptive Title
As one of the other reviewers here, Ales from Slovenia, pointed out, this book is not for experienced VBscript developers! Because most of the content is not about WSH, but about VBscript. If you are an experienced developer looking for an in depth and detailed discussion of WSH, you are going to be very disappointed with this book. It's WSH coverage doesn't even surpass MSDN's. This books assumes little to no scripting experience, and as a result, the bulk of the book is an effort in teaching scripting, not WSH as the title suggests. It's also a bad reference, not that it matters, since it doesn't cover what I wanted. I'll return my copy.
Rating: 5 out of 5
You can download source code!
I am currently reading this book and have found it to be very helpful so far. I have already read Tim's NT Shell scripting book and loved it.
The main reason for writing this review is to tell users that YOU CAN DOWNLOAD SOURCE CODE but not from the link listed in the book. You must go to new riders website and do a search on the book. Once you find the book there is a link to download the source code.
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