I can't find the answer to this anywhere.  Can VBScript be run from inside
Visual Basic?

I have written and large VBScript for doing admin work pulling OS config
info , but now the user wants a GUI front end for the script.  Can I use VB
to create a GUI and then use my script code to pull the OS data?

Steve B.

Yes - just bung an MSScript.OCX in one of your forms and run the script in
that.

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I believe (not done it) that you should be able to use WSH to run VBS
scripts from Visual Basic as well. Have a lok on Google.

Chris.

Sort of; you have a few options if you want to integrate VBScript into VB.

One option is to actually rewrite the script as VB.  VBScript is lexically
almost identical to VB, and even at the level of procedures is almost
identical semantically; the primary difference you run into is first at
the statement level where some intrinsics for WSH are not available to VB
(you will need to translate those to VB - not a problem) and then at the
level of a complete code file there are significant structural
differences - but those should be relatively minor issues, you just wrap
your global code into a Sub Main or Sub Form_Onload, etc.

The other option is to use the Microsoft Script Control.  This lets you
leave the script as-is  and easily reconfigurable if you read it into VB
from outside, but requires a little more care in structuring.  Overall,
the first option is probably easiest.

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Yep - intrinsic objects aren't the same.  Stepping away from the GUI
solution specifically, VBScript can be rewritten as a VB.NET console app
with almost no effort.  You have to stick all of the global code into a
Sub Main() of course and translate WScript.* intrinsics into appropriate
.NET classes, but then you can compile instantly.

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I think you can do that using the script control (MSSCRIPT.OCX),
but it'd probably be easier to use VB to get the info. if you're using
a VB GUI.
  If you have the functionality and just need a GUI you could house
the script functions in an HTA.

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http://www.mvps.org/vexpert/articles/XMLgenScripts1.htm

You can run VBScrips but this will run in a thread. This article say you how
to control the thread.

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Thanks all for the replies.

Finished cleaning up the code and deciding whether to rewrite as a VB app or
try pulling script code into VB with the OCX.  Someone there maybe a problem
with using the OCX since I'm using WMI heavily. So making a VB app be best
solution for long run.

Thanks again,
Steve B.

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