Recommend me a VBScript Book

[MisterBishi]

Why hello there.

I'm using VBScript increasingly to do various bits and bobs at work. Mainly LDAP stuff like creating/modifying user accounts, text manipulation (find/replace) and moving files around, etc.

Most of the time I can find examples on the net that I can tailor to my needs, but I'd like to better understand vbscript such that I can write these things from scratch.

What I'm after, therefore, is a good "teach yourself vbscript" book thats aimed at Windows/AD admins rather than web stuff or anything else. I'm definitely a beginner, but I'm not an idiot, so I want a decent learning curve.

So, if anybody has read such a book, please let me know how you found it, recommendations to avoid are just as welcome as recommendations to purchase!

Cheers

[MisterBishi]

Ok assmasters, fuck you guys! I ordered an O'Reilly book on Monad/Powershell instead, its the future! Unfortunately its based on the Beta and Powershell is in RTM now but I dont expect much will have changed, at least not from the perspective of a beginner.

ps. you guys sucks at the books (truth).

[banga]

ummm heres a video lol
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Author - Mark Long / Certified Instructor
Total Time - 6 Hours

Microsoft Visual Basic has evolved throughout the years, but has steadily remained one of the most popular programming languages today. Visual Basic .NET is undoubtedly the most significant change to occur to Visual Basic yet. Significant new features include: unity of programming models, extension of the program to include mobile device capabilites, Performance Counters and Server Explorer, flashy new capabilities in Windows Forms, anchoring controls, opacity and transparency properties, and much more.

In this six hour tutorial, Microsoft Certified Instructor Mark Long will introduce and expand upon Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and what users can do with it.

Download (86 MBs):
Code:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UD4VV3MZ

[banga]

and the next ones
Microsoft Visual Basic 6

Microsoft Visual Basic 6 is a versatile language, usable for business applications, database interface, gaming applications, and even for presentations.

Professor Arthur Lee authors this tutorial. He begins by introducing code and the controls needed in Visual Basic. Learn all about variables, debugging, and creating menus, as well.


Download (about 26MBs RARed)
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/27222655/VisualBasic6.rar



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Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Advanced

Microsoft Visual Basic 6 is a versatile language, usable for business applications, database interface, gaming applications, and even for presentations.

In the Visual Basic 6 Advanced tutorial, Professor Arthur Lee will take your Visual Basic skills to the next level by showing you multiple form projects, code for multiple forms, sequential forms, and much more.

Download ( MBs):
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/23162866/VisualBasic6_Adv.rar

[satori]

Ok assmasters, fuck you guys! I ordered an O'Reilly book on Monad/Powershell instead, its the future! Unfortunately its based on the Beta and Powershell is in RTM now but I dont expect much will have changed, at least not from the perspective of a beginner.

ps. you guys sucks at the books (truth).

Monad is very interesting.

This is well worth a look if you are going to dive into it.....

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=25915

[banga]

oops they not the same as vb script are they??

[Hired Goon]

lol, they sure aren't jimmy. for example, apparently you can write gaming applications in VB6 :uhh:

[banga]

heh sorry in my searches i must have lost the plot , this is all alien to me ,
"backs out slowly"

[banga]

60 EBOOKS FOR VISUAL BASIC .NET

Author
Title
Rating
Publisher, Year, ISBN, Ref No

Dan Appleman
Moving to VB .NET
Apress, 2003, 159059102X, A-00223

Francesco Balena
Programming Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Microsoft Press, 2006, 0735621837, B-00469

F. Scott Barker
Database Programming with Visual Basic .NET and ADO.NET
Sams, 2002, 0672322471, B-00344

Douglas Bell & Mike Parr
Visual Basic.Net for Students
Pearson Education, 2002, 0201742055, B-00233

Pooja Bembey
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Professional Projects
Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade, 2002, 1931841292, B-00412

Richard Bowman
VB.NET
Visual, 2002, 0764536494, B-00435

Sean Campbell, Patrick Barnes, Bob Carver, Kris Horrocks, Jim Pragit, Oz Rugless & Scott Swigart
101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications
Microsoft Press, 2003, 0735618917, C-00227

Daniel R. Clark
Beginning Object-Oriented Programming with VB 2005
Apress, 2005, 1590595769, C-00158

Nell Dale
Programming and Problem Solving with Visual Basic .NET
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., 2002, 0763717630, D-00122

Nell B. Dale & Michael McMillan
VB.NET
Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 2002, 0763718238, D-00252

Harvey M. Deitel & Paul J. Deitel
Visual Basic(R) 2005 for Programmers (2nd Edition) (Deitel Developer Series)
Prentice Hall PTR, 2006, 013225140X, D-00163

Daniel N. Egan
Building Websites with VB. Net and Dotnetnuke 4
Packt Publishing, Limited, 2006, 190481199X, E-00072

Bill Evjen, Billy Hollis, Rockford Lhotka, Tim McCarthy, Rama Ramachandran, Kent Sharkey & Bill Sheldon
Professional VB 2005 (Programmer to Programmer)
Wrox, 2005, 0764575368, E-00009

James Foxall & James D. Foxall
Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET
Microsoft Press, 2002, 0735613567, F-00194

Carl Ganz Jr.
Real World Enterprise Reports Using VB6 and VB .NET
Apress, 2003, 1590590643, G-00260

Denise Gosnell, Matthew Reynolds & Bill Forgey
Beginning Visual Basic .NET Databases
Wrox Press, 2001, 1861005555, G-00075

J P Hamilton
Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET
O'Reilly Media, 2002, 0596001460, H-00393

Steven Holzner
Visual Basic .NET Black Book
Coriolis Group Books, 2002, 157610835X, H-00353

Steven Holzner
Visual Basic .NET Core Language Little Black Book
Paraglyph Press, 2003, 1932111689, H-00263

Kris Jamsa
Visual Basic .NET Tips & Techniques
McGraw-Hill Companies, 2002, 0072223189, J-00045

Jr., Jerry Lee Ford
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Programming for the Absolute Beginner (For the Absolute Beginner)
Course Technology PTR, 2005, 1592008143, J-00092

Paul Kimmel
Visual Basic .NET Power Coding
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003, 0672324075, K-00153

Paul Kimmel
Visual Basic .NET Unleashed
Sams, 2002, 067232234X, K-00173

Jeff Levinson
Building Client/Server Applications Under VB .NET
Apress, 2003, 1590590708, L-00282

Rockford Lhotka
Expert One-on-One Visual Basic .NET Business Objects
Apress, 2003, 1590591453, L-00183

Rockford Lhotka
Expert VB 2005 Business Objects, Second Edition
Apress, 2006, 1590596315, L-00156

Rocky Lhotka & Billy Hollis
Fast Track Visual Basic .NET
Wrox Press, 2002, 1861007124, L-00162

Jesse Liberty
Learning Visual Basic .NET
O'Reilly Media, 2002, 0596003862, L-00159

Jesse Liberty
Programming Visual Basic 2005
O'Reilly Media, 2005, 0596009496, L-00199

Matthew MacDonald
The Book of Visual Basic 2005
No Starch Press, 2006, 1593270747, M-00471

Matthew MacDonald
Peer-to-Peer with VB .NET
Apress, 2003, 1590591054, M-00330

Richard Mansfield
Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
For Dummies, 2005, 0764597051, M-00083

Jeffrey P. McManus & Jackie Goldstein
Database Access with Visual Basic .NET (3rd Edition)
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003, 0672323435, M-00367

Michael McMillan
Data Structures and Algorithms Using Visual Basic.NET
Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521547652, M-00286

Karl Moore
The Ultimate VB .NET and ASP.NET Code Book
Apress, 2005, 1590591062, M-00314

Robert J. Oberg, Peter Thorsteinson & Dana L. Wyatt
Application Development Using Visual Basic and .NET
Prentice Hall PTR, 2002, 0130933821, O-00048

Andrew Parsons
Wrox's Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit (Programmer to Programmer)
Wrox, 2006, 0764595733, P-00049

Tim Patrick
Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006, 0321398009, P-00244

Tim Patrick & John Craig
Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
O'Reilly Media, 2006, 0596101775, P-00237

Tim Patrick, Steven Roman, Ron Petrusha & Paul Lomax
Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell)
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006, 059610152X, P-00035

Ted Pattison & Joe Hummel
Building Applications and Components with Visual Basic .NET
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003, 0201734958, P-00293

Patrice Pelland
Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Press, 2005, 0735622132, P-00175

Evangelos Petroutsos
Mastering Visual Basic .NET
Sybex, 2001, 0782128777, P-00247

Evangelos Petroutsos & Asli Bilgin
Mastering Visual Basic .NET Database Programming
Sybex, 2002, 0782128785, P-00183

Evangelos Petroutsos & Richard Mansfield
Visual Basic .NET Power Tools
Sybex, 2003, 0782142427, P-00207

Ph.D., Steven Roman, Ron Petrusha, Paul Lomax & Steven Roman
VB.NET Language in a Nutshell
O'Reilly, 2001, 0596000928, P-00317

Anne Prince
Murach's Beginning Visual Basic .NET
Mike Murach & Associates, 2002, 1890774154, P-00187

Jack Purdum
Visual Basic .NET Primer Plus
Sams, 2003, 0672324857, P-00270

Steven Roman, Ron Petrusha & Paul Lomax
VB. NET Language in a Nutshell (2nd Edition)
O'Reilly Media, 2002, 0596003080, R-00211

Steven Roman, Ron Petrusha & Paul Lomax
VB.NET Language Pocket Reference
O'Reilly Media, 2002, 0596004281, R-00226

Chris Sells & Justin Gehtland
Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003, 0321125193, S-00371

Bill Sempf
Visual Basic 2005 For Dummies
For Dummies, 2005, 076457728X, S-00457

Jeffrey R. Shapiro
Visual Basic(r).NET
Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 2002, 0072133813, S-00554

Rod Stephens
Visual Basic.NET Database Programming
Que, 2002, 0789726815, S-00572

Utley
Visual Basic to VB.NET
Pearson Professional Education, 2001, 067232203X, U-00011

Paul Vick
The Visual Basic .NET Programming Language (Microsoft .Net Development Series)
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004, 0321169514, V-00035

Wallace Wang
Visual Basic 2005 Express
No Starch Press, 2006, 1593270593, W-00132

Thearon Willis, Jonathan Crossland & Richard Blair
Beginning VB.NET 2003
Wrox, 2004, 0764556584, W-00064

Peter Wright
Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
Apress, 2006, 1590596226, W-00307

Paul Yao & David Durant
.NET Compact Framework Programming with Visual Basic .NET (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004, 0321174046, Y-00030


http://rapidshare.com/files/18500167/Visual_Basic.NET.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18508113/Visual_Basic.NET.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18514581/Visual_Basic.NET.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18522866/Visual_Basic.NET.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18535613/Visual_Basic.NET.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/18501972/Visual_Basic.NET.part6.rar

PSWD:GR_BOOKS
links were fine at time of posting but dont muck around they may not last .banga.

[banga]

ah geez i did it again

[MisterBishi]

Excellent video Satori, thanks. I worked through a couple of MS white papers yesterday and realised its pretty powerful (the -wmiobject -computername stuff is ace) but the video kind of underlined it. I'll be focussing on this stuff a lot I think!