Editor
Mario - Roma
Can I use Visual Studio Express edition, available for free? Does it support
VBscript?
Regards
Marius
Pegasus [MVP]
"Mario - Roma" <ma...@nospam.local> wrote in message
news:edqmkoLy...@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
The same question was raised last week in the newsgroup
microsoft.public.de.german.scripting.wsh under the topic "IDE und Debugger".
Don't worry about the language - the replies are perfectly clear.
Todd Walton
> Where can I find an editor to create/debug VBscript files?
> Can I use Visual Studio Express edition, available for free? Does it support
> VBscript?
I don't know, but I doubt that Visual Studio would handle VBScripts
well. I use PrimalScript, it kicks butt.
Microsoft has a debugging recommendation:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308364
Notepad is a free editor from Microsoft, probably already installed on
your computer. Notepad++ is better:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
--
Todd
mayayana
also sometimes known as "intellisense". That
means you can have popup menus for the methods
and properties of objects.
For debugging, if you need more than the basic error
info. there's the MS script debugger. That functionality
is also somehow linked into most script editors (if you
have the MS debugger installed).
Specialized for VBS, with at least auto-completion:
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* VBSEdit - Good design and can apparently be used
for free if you don't mind nags.
www.vbsedit.com
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* PrimalScript www.sapien.com
* Admin Script Editor - http://www.adminscripteditor.com/
These two are in the category of "astonishingly overpriced".
But they both seem to get good reviews. If your boss is
paying then they're probably worth looking at.
I once came across an online course at dowjones.com,
officially linked to Microsoft, where PrimalScript was
required for a 3-day course in VBScript! So it's not hard
to see how these inflated prices are feasible, given the
right marketing. As with MS Office, the price is absurd,
but most people are not paying for it themselves.
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* WEB-ED Editor (Disclaimer: This is my own product) -
The only editor with color-coding for variables.
www.jsware.net/jsware/webed.php5
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Aside from that, there are lots of free editors
that provide rudimentary color syntax highlighting
for keywords. Most of those can be adapted for
VBScript. And for many people that's good enough.
If you search for free editors you'll easily find a
list of the most popular ones.
There are also a number of not-free general
editors that have a good following. For instance,
UltraEdit seems to have been well regarded for
many years:
http://www.ultraedit.com/
If you're going to pay for a general editor over
a free version, though, you'd obviously want to
make sure it's got plenty of usefulness that's worth
the cost.
Reventlov
>Where can I find an editor to create/debug VBscript files?
>Can I use Visual Studio Express edition, available for free? Does it support
>VBscript?
I used MSE (mse7 in earlier versions of MS Office), shipped with Office (I have 2000 sbe).
It has object browser and intelli sense like vb (it is the same environment).
Now I use VbsEdit33 and I find it very good and complete.
Others are:
ftp://ftp.koansoftware.com/public/freeware/VBSeditor\VBSeditor.zip
PrimalScript (30 $) http://www.sapien.com.
Adersoft VbsEdit - JsEdit (US$ 30) http://www.adersoft.com/
ConText (www.fixedsys.com/context) It is a text editor
EditPad www.jgsoft.com Text editor
EditPlus www.editplus.com shareware 30 days
NoteTab light (free) www.notetab.com
SciTE Scintilla Text Editor
TextPad www.textpad.com
UltraEdit-32 www.ultraedit.com
WEB-ED Webpage and Scripting Editor (US$ 30) http://www.jsware.net/
Zeus for Windows 35$ http://www.zeusedit.com
Some are only advanced text editors.
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Giovanni Cenati (Bergamo, Italy)
Write to "Reventlov" at katamail com
http://digilander.libero.it/Cenati (Esempi e programmi in VbScript)
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mayayana
?? PrimalScript is $299. You missed a zero!
http://www.scriptingoutpost.com/p-88-primalscript-2009.aspx
Reventlov
$299? I could not believe it. But it's true.
PrimalScript 2009 supports over 50 languages and file types ranging from PowerShell,
VBScript, and JScript to ASP and ASP.NET. Additionally, dedicated tools for XML and SQL
make complicated data processing a snap.
PrimalScript
> First, you probably want "auto-completion",
> also sometimes known as "intellisense". That
> means you can have popup menus for the methods
> and properties of objects.
>
> For debugging, if you need more than the basic error
> info. there's the MS script debugger. That functionality
> is also somehow linked into most script editors (if you
> have the MS debugger installed).
>
> Specialized for VBS, with at least auto-completion:
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> * VBSEdit - Good design and can apparently be used
> for free if you don't mind nags.www.vbsedit.com
>
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> * PrimalScriptwww.sapien.com
PrimalScript colors variables and includes them in PrimalSense
listings for most languages.
Microsoft includes a classroom copy of PrimalScript with their
VBScript and PowerShell courses.
So it's not "required", but included for the purpose of the class.
There is a distinction between an IDE and an editor, so everyone
should check what
suits them most and what they need. Obviously, just like with
everything else,
features and "stuff" comes at a price :-)
Obviously I work for SAPIEN, so I am a bit biased ;-)