VBScript Or Powershell Scripting
Jun 4, 2012
I took the dive into learning VBScript due to some server side scripts that I work with. During a course I ran into Powershell and did some Google searching. From what I was reading, VBScript is good for legacy applications and Powershell is the way to go for Win7. I did not run into anything telling me of this being true or if its a false statement and VBScript will be used for Win7 and Win8. Should I look into learning Powershell and abort my VBScript for now and just worry about VBScript for legacy systems?
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Aug 3, 2010
I have been asked to transfer the Function events from the WebFrmLoanCalculate.aspx to the Web Page CODEBEHIND. I have not done the before using VBScript and encounter this error message:
Option Strict On requires all Function, Property, and Operator declarations to have an 'As' clause.
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Feb 28, 2010
I have been struggling to get vbscript working for last three days of relentless effort. I have windows 7 ultimate and upgraded from windows vista. searched the web for solutions and tried out all the options I think I have, but yet no luck.
I tried registering vbscript.dll and I get a succeeded message back. Everything seems to be fine. but, I just cannot run vbscript on my computer. It complains that "can't find script engine vbscript for script ....". I have a hunch that it is something to do with "microsfot security essentials (my virus protection software)" or with UAC.
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Nov 24, 2010
Im trying to create an app that will do some funky things with new users/leaving users and apply a load of business requirements around this. After playing about with Powershell forms, ive decided to embedd powershell within a VB.net app.I am using the following code, which is always returning "Nothing", as in no result, which is causing me a real headache. The same code works with Get-QADuser, and Get-Command, just not Get-Mailbox.I will also need to call New-Mailbox and othe commands later on in the proces.
Imports
System.Management.Automation.Runspaces
Imports
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May 16, 2012
I need to call Powershell commands via my code and I find at least 2 different examples of doing this. I'm wondering what the differences between the methods are and why I would use one as opposed to the other.The first (simpler?) method goes something like this:
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I also know that with either method I can pipe the command to out-string to make Powershell return strings instead of objects.My question is, which method should I use and why? They both seem the same to me.
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Dec 12, 2011
I have a file full of last-names separated by commas and then first-names.
Smith,Bob
Chicken,Ronald
Car,Anastasia
Code:
gc permissions.csv|% {$_.split(",")[0]}
I'd like to grab the first character of the first name and then pre-pend it to the string of the last name. The general idea is to find the user ID that's stored in Active Directory, in my company it's the first letter of the first name and then the last name.
Then I'm trying to add these users as read-only on a specific directory.
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Jul 28, 2010
Running the following code resulting in an HostException;
Public Sub RunPowershellInConsole(ByVal scriptText As String)
Dim config = RunspaceConfiguration.Create
Dim args() As String = New String() {scriptText}
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Mar 29, 2010
I am trying to create a programma that gathers system data like CPU name and speed and Physical Memory things like that
i succeeded in loading the data i use:
Dim searcher As ManagementObjectSearcher = _
New ManagementObjectSearcher("select * from Win32_Processor")
For Each oReturn As ManagementObject In searcher.Get()
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Feb 25, 2012
I'm evaluating the best approach to implement the following periodic task:
Get some users from SQL Server (2008) and then for each user enable licences in the Cloud (Office 365) using PowerShell.
My first thought was a console-based app in C# or VB.net but now that I realize that running a PS Script remotely using C# can be quite a challenge I'm starting to think in alternatives like perform all the stuff using PowerShell, I guess this is a better approach but I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
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Feb 25, 2010
We use VB2005, Along with Powershell to manage our exchange infrastructure. VB.Net codes have been compiled to support MIIS2003 Operations. One of the operations require the functions in VB.net to write an output into .csv file. This file receives jibberish characters as input after the functions are executed.
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May 18, 2012
I have to call PS commands from a VB.NET program. This works fine if I'm calling standard PS commands, but if I have to call a command that lives in a 3rd party module I can't seem to make it work. At the PS console I can type Import-Module MyModule and then I can call the commands in that module. I tried the following but it doesn't work, I still can't access my command from within the module:
Dim PowerShell As Management.Automation.PowerShell = PowerShell.Create()
Dim PowerShellCommand As New PSCommand()
Dim PowerShellCommandResults As Object
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Jul 20, 2011
I have a Powershell script and no matter what I try it completly ignores any quotation marks in the script. The error occurs when I run the script from my VB.NET code yet, I have been running scripts sucessfully through VB.NET for a while now. For example, my script starts with finding out the server name...
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Dec 8, 2010
I currently have an ASP.NET programming creating a Powershell CmdLet to create a mailbox in exchange. The issue I'm having is sometimes is fails to create the mailbox because "it can't find" the exchange database I am specifying. So what I'm trying to do is run a Get-Mailbox and then pipe the results to an Enable-Mailbox command. Below is the code I am using to do it:
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Jul 28, 2010
I'm needing to run scripts from within a vb.net windows app. I've got the scripts running in the background fine;
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Jun 9, 2011
I'm currently having issues calling a .ps1 file in my vb.net project. The program is supposed to provide a simple way for end users to unlock Active Directory accounts. The vb.net project is simply a text box with a button. Users will type the username of the locked account. When the button is pressed, the program writes whatever is in the text box into a CSV file. The CSV file has a samAccountName column in it. After the file is written to, the program then calls a Powershell script that reads the CSV file and unlocks the account based upon what is in the file.The program does everything it is supposed to except for calling the Powershell script to actually unlock the account. I've tried a Process.Start(filePath) which would open the file, but opened in notepad and didn't execute anything. Right now the program is calling a batch file which is supposed to run the script in Powershell but that attempt also failed.
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Oct 14, 2011
We are converting a VB6 project to VB.net 2005. The VB6 project used Interop.Scripting.Dll reference.
We do not want to use this Interop.Scripting.Dll in our VB.Net project. find the .Net Counterpart of Scripting.Dll so that we do not require to build our .Net project with the old scripting dll reference?
We are using Scripting.FileSystemObject and Scripting.TextStream of Interop.Scripting.Dll. What is the equivalent .net counterpart of these objects in VB.Net 2005.?
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Jun 3, 2011
Im brand new to VB and almost completely new to scripting.Where could I find a list of the most basic and useful commands with explanations, or even just like a dictionary of commands in VB?
Also, (this is a painfully easy question but searches haven't come up with any useful results) how do you make something happen if a button is clicked... Ill explain.
Ive made my first app - the picture viewer - and am currently expanding it. So far I have added a full-screen function with,[code...]
Now how do I make it Close full screen when that button has been clicked? Ive been playing around with it for a while but cant figure it out.
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May 8, 2012
I'd like to start off by saying I'm not really a programmer just a sysadmin who likes to dabble (so simple answers would be nice ;) ),I've created a webapp that's used by some less technical folk to do basic administration tasks(User provisioning through our IDM, Updating passwords, Disabling accounts, Editing user details, etc)there's also a couple of exchange functions that are currently handled by exporting a CSV that a separate powershell script processes.I'm trying to bring these powershell functions into the application to reduce complexity but I'm having some trouble.
When I execute the "Add-MailboxPermission" command I get no return output (nor does it apply the change) at all, unless I put no parameters,in which case it throws the expected missing parameters exception (Not scientific but proves it's loading the exchange plugin fine and executing):
private sub cmdMbxFullAccess(sender as object, e as eventargs)
Dim psRunSpaceConf As RunspaceConfiguration = RunspaceConfiguration.Create()
Dim psConfException As PSSnapInException[code].....
If however I issue a simpler command like "Get-Host | Out-String" I get return output as expected. Thus far I have checked that the user context it's running under has the correct permissions and tried executing the command from the powershell prompt on that server to make sure that there isn't some other external issue I am overlooking.how I can further debug this, it's like the command disappears into the ether never to be heard from again!
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May 8, 2012
I'd like to start off by saying I'm not really a programmer just a sysadmin who likes to dabble (so simple answers would be nice ;) ), I've created a webapp that's used by some less technical folk to do basic administration tasks (User provisioning through our IDM, Updating passwords, Disabling accounts, Editing user details, etc) there's also a couple of exchange functions that are currently handled by exporting a CSV that a separate powershell script processes. I'm trying to bring these powershell functions into the application to reduce complexity but I'm having some trouble.
When I execute the "Add-MailboxPermission" command I get no return output (nor does it apply the change) at all, unless I put no parameters, in which case it throws the expected missing parameters exception (Not scientific but proves it's loading the exchange plugin fine and trying to execute):
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Apr 26, 2011
I have the following powershell script which loads a custom .NET DLL this contains the ScriptResult class, it is intern executed from a VB.NET app.
Add-Type -Path $myLibPath
$result = New-Object TheLibrary.ScriptResult
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Aug 15, 2011
I wonder if it is possible to write and capture errors when running a script to PowerShell.In my case I am using the following code:[code]' add an extra command to transform the script output objects into nicely formatted strings' remove this line to get the actual objects that the script returns, for example, see the script "Get-Process" returns a collection.[code]
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Jun 13, 2012
Just a quick question, I want to stop the end users from being able to resize a GUI that I've created.
$objForm = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.Form
$objForm.Text = "ADX v2.1.2.0"
$objForm.minimumSize = New-Object System.Drawing.Size(965,665)
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Apr 1, 2011
I followed Ziannb article on involking powershell from visual basic. It works great but it doesnt allow me to run scripts with [URL]
- how can i run powershell scripts with arguments from VB
- how can i run one powershell command line at a time from VB. When i use below two command, it pipes the first command to the second one..instead of running them individually :
MyPipeline.Commands.Add("get-childitem")
MyPipeline.Commands.Add("get-date")
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Jun 21, 2010
I would like to add some scripting support to my .NET-application (I usually code in VB.NET). Since VisualStudio 2008 won't let me use VSA to get scripting support, and the Windows ScriptControl crashes in 64-bit mode, I have been looking for an alternative solution to my problem.I would really like to be able to code the scripts in VBScript or VB.NET, because of the simple syntax.Would it be possible to implement some kind of sandbox inside my application to make it run a VB.NET application inside itself? Or is there any simpler way of getting scripting support?
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Nov 10, 2011
I'm using visual studio 2008. I have searched the google upside down, but could not find anything... I guess i'm not typing it correctly.
My question is: How do I add checkboxes through scripting in vb. Instead adding them through toolbox. So when a new file is found, It will create checkbox automatically.
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Feb 9, 2010
Is there a way to create my own scripting language. I don't have any details on what I want to do because it's way too complex,
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Jun 22, 2010
I'm trying to write the code to add users to sql 2005 backend server, and a windows login form. so that certain area's of my program have restricted access.
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Dec 30, 2009
The software company I work for offers data conversion as a service for new clients who have previously used other similar software. I've written a VB.NET application to automate common conversion operations, and have separate logic between known vendors.particular file layout has become rather common, but due to the nature of how this particular competitor's application stores information, certain fields mean one thing for one client, and another for a different client.Certain elements within this vendor's format change every time, so I've written the application to account for that. Because some data fields mean different things to different vendors, I have to change my mapping code every time. This wasn't an issue when I had one of these every six months or so, but these are becoming much more common and I would much rather find a way to further automate this process.
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May 20, 2009
Would it be difficult to make a scripting engine in VB.Net? Just a simple scripting engine for a simple game creating program.
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Oct 11, 2011
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I need to register my class library using the regasm.exe distributed with .Net on user's computers. I have a need to script this so that a command file can be ran to do this.
Question: As multiple versions of this program are on the user's computers, one for each version of .Net, I presume I would want to run the latest version installed. Also, considering that on most of the machines we are talking Windows 7, there is a Framework & Framework64 parent folder. I presume I'd want to use the Framework64 version on Windows 7, no? Are there any inherant environment variables I can make use of rather than hard coding a path in a command file to call RegAsm.exe?
For example, on my computer:
C:WindowsMicrosoft.NetFramework
v1.0.3705
v1.1.4322
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Underneath each of these version RegAsm.exe resides. Ideally which should I make use of (Does it matter?) and is there, say something like: %regasm% variable I can make use of?
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