VBScript Overview

VBScript, by Microsoft, is a scripting language also called as Active Scripting Language. A scripting language is a programming language but it falls under the category of light weight programming language suitable for web applications. As you can infer from its name, VBScript inherits the features of Microsoft’s Visual Basic Programming Language that is why VBScript is also called as Visual Basic Scripting Edition or in other words, you can say that VBScript is a light version of Microsoft’s Visual Basic

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Do you know that since Windows 98, every release of Microsoft Windows has come with VBScript installed? A scripting language requires a particular host environment in which it can be executed. Same is the case with VBScript as well; it must be executed within a particular host environment. Moreover, the host environment for VBScript is can be embedded, with the help of technologies like Microsoft Script Control etc, in other programs as well.

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VBScript can be used in an HTML document as well just like JavaScript can be inserted into a HTML document. When you embed VBScript Code into a HTML document, your web browser will go through the HTML tags and it will interpret the VBScript that will be executed at run time. Do follow the coming sections for more details about VBScript