VBScript, or Visual Basic Scripting, is a scripting language developed by Microsoft to help developers write scripts that interact with its products. VBScript is mainly used with Internet Explorer.

Many commercial Web sites use the VBScript language to create flexible, dynamic pages. In some applications, such as a site that lets you download business documents, a VBScript-based Web page ...

I have a vbscript that deletes a couple of .exe files on a file server and then replaces them with newer versions. The problem is that people tend to keep the files open instead of closing them when ...

programmatically access the file system and create, modify, delete, open, and close files for different purposes. To open/create a file in VBScript, you must create a handle on the FileSystemxxx ...

I'd like to verify a file was copied successfully to the network based on file size I suppose. But if I do the following, then using Computer Management on the server, close the handle it comes back ...

You’ll often need to equip your VB applications with a way for users to delete files they no longer require. Unfortunately, the easiest way to handle this—using the Kill function—is a one-way ticket.

On VB columnist Joe Kunk shows you how to create and extract "almost" .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4 and standard .ZIP files in .NET Framework 4.5. The ability to compress multiple files from one or ...