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| Vbscript in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference | 
 enlarge | Authors: Paul Lomax, Matt Childs, Ron Petrusha
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
Buy Used: $7.03
You Save: $17.92 (72%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 1032354
Format: Bargain Price
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 495
ASIN: B00008CM4D
Publication Date: April 30, 2000
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 This is not the one. February 20, 2005
4 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book is completely reference oriented. If you want to learn to write VBscript using this book, you will get nowhere.
I found the first error in the book within 30 minutes. To be fair, I have not yet found the second one after 10 more hours. The problem is, with 10 hours of intensive reading and searching, I am not able to figure out how to write a simple script to find a file with a known name and check its last modified date and conditionally delete it.
Many say it has a good reference section. It may be true, except that a) it is not complete - I found no reference for Subfolder except the container, and b) the examples are plentiful but they are mostly one- or two-liners which show how to use a particular language element, rather than how that element can be employed to solve real life problems.
$23.07 and ten hours. That's it. I am cutting my losses.
Not Beginner Friendly March 3, 2004
6 out of 16 found this review helpful
I was looking for a VBScript book to help me get started. This is not that book. There is nothing about what software must reside on your computer, no instructions about how to get started and there are no correctly written working examples anywhere in the book. In other words, nothing a beginner needs. I guess I should have bought a "dummies" book...
 An excellent reference September 19, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This was the best book purchase I've ever made (or at least recently). The reference in indispensable. If you write ASP pages or WSH scripts in VBScript, GET THIS BOOK! You won't regret it.
Nice reference section July 11, 2003
This book assumes you know a bit about programming already. They don't spend a lot of time teaching in this book with "how to's". You get this book for the reference section instead, which has examples of how to use the code which are much better than the ones found on MSDN's VBScript Language Reference pages.
 Can't beat O'Reilly books April 2, 2003
1 out of 18 found this review helpful
Good solid quick reference guide.
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