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Windows Script Host
by Timothy Hill, Tim Hill
List Price: $35.00
Our Price: $30.10
ISBN: 1578701392
Publisher: Que (22 October, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 30,993
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Another excellent Tim Hill book
Tim Hill again proves himself to be a through writer and excellent teacher on WSH. This book focuses EXCLUSIVELY on VBScript with no examples of JScript (both languages native to WSH). However, if you build, deploy, manage, maintain, query, or generally support Windows platforms, you should have a copy of this book. It serves as an excellent VBScript/WSH primer covering programming concepts and built-in functions in detail. It them moves on to cover objects and classes from introductory to advanced topics. His examples are clear and to the point. Tim's writing style is VERY easy to undertand and VERY thorough. This book is a MUST HAVE for admins wanting to go well beyond batch files for logon scripts and administration. Combined with a good WMI book, you've got a powerful aresenal. BTW, the downloads from the publisher were easily available...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Fundamentals of MS Programming Explained
I am a very experienced Microsoft developer. Mr. Hill's previous book, NT Shell Scripting, was fantastic, and became part of my recommended reading for IS folks. Using concepts from that book I was able to automate a tremendously complex web site build process (including database builds and dumps, source safe retrievals, etc).This new book is great. In attempting to encourage others to become computer people, its difficult to provide them with a book that clearly and concisely explains the Microsoft development architecture. This book does that. I'm very technically oriented, but this book does not offend me by being patronizing. Unlike many WROX and similar books, its not full of author fluff that contributes little to the book. A good read and review, a great reference for the future. I highly recommend it, anyone who does anything with NT should have a copy. It will be a competitive advantage between NT administrators.
Rating: 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.
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