What's a good IDE for VBScript

[Stephen Hicks]

Hi All,

I'm after a good (cheap) IDe for VBScript.
Can anyone give me some suggestions as to which ones are worth a look?

Cheers,
Stephen Hicks


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[Adrian Enders]

I have had some recommend PrimalScript ...

http://www.sapien.com/primalscript.aspx


Mostly, people just use the VB IDE (5, 6, or NET) or Notepad.


I use VS.NET.


Adrian

Post by Stephen Hicks
Hi All,
I'm after a good (cheap) IDe for VBScript.
Can anyone give me some suggestions as to which ones are worth a look?
Cheers,
Stephen Hicks
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[Jeff Cochran]

Post by Stephen Hicks
I'm after a good (cheap) IDe for VBScript.
Can anyone give me some suggestions as to which ones are worth a look?

Plenty of free/near free ones to choose from. Any text editor, and
many will color code, indent, etc.

Jeff

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

Post by Stephen Hicks
Hi All,
I'm after a good (cheap) IDe for VBScript.
Can anyone give me some suggestions as to which ones are worth a look?

Hi

If you want syntax coloring as well as code completion, I have not seen
any free ones for this.

Some not so expensive editors supporting this listed below.

Adersoft VbsEdit - JsEdit (US$30)
http://www.adersoft.com/

WEB-ED Webpage and Scripting Editor (US$30)
http://www.jsware.net/

Zeus for Windows (US$35)
http://www.zeusedit.com/lookmain.html

[ews]

Post by Stephen Hicks
Hi All,
I'm after a good (cheap) IDe for VBScript.
Can anyone give me some suggestions as to which ones are worth a look?
Cheers,
Stephen Hicks
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text pad rules =)

http://www.textpad.com/

[Jussi Jumppanen]

Post by Stephen Hicks
I'm after a good (cheap) IDe for VBScript.

Take a look at Zeus for Windows:

http://www.zeusedit.com/lookmain.html

Some programming features include:

+ Code completion and intellisensing
+ Integrated class browser
+ Project/workspace management
+ Fully configurable syntax highlighting
+ Seamless FTP editing
+ Integrated version control (including CVS)
+ Quick Help context sensitive help engine
+ Fully scriptable using Python, Lua, VB Script, JavaScript

Jussi Jumppanen
Home Page: http://www.zeusedit.com

[MikeVa [MSFT]]

I know a few people that like this one:
http://www.editplus.com/index.html

I just use notepad (it's free!)
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Post by Torgeir Bakken (MVP)

Post by Stephen Hicks
I'm after a good (cheap) IDe for VBScript.

http://www.zeusedit.com/lookmain.html
+ Code completion and intellisensing
+ Integrated class browser
+ Project/workspace management
+ Fully configurable syntax highlighting
+ Seamless FTP editing
+ Integrated version control (including CVS)
+ Quick Help context sensitive help engine
+ Fully scriptable using Python, Lua, VB Script, JavaScript
Jussi Jumppanen
Home Page: http://www.zeusedit.com

[Jussi Jumppanen]

Post by MikeVa [MSFT]
I just use notepad (it's free!)

If your only criteria is that it should be free, there
must be literally dozens of free editors that are so
much better than notepad.

To para-phrase this page:

http://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PickingATextEditor

they say:

"Basically, if you are using notepad that you're working
too hard. Get a better text editor!"

and IMHO this is very true.

Jussi Jumppanen
Author of: Zeus for Windows (New version 3.93 out now)
"The C/C++, Cobol, Java, HTML, Python, PHP, Perl programmer's editor"
Home Page: http://www.zeusedit.com

[MikeVa [MSFT]]

OK - it's free and it's already installed on just about every machine I
touch! :-)
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Post by Jussi Jumppanen

Post by MikeVa [MSFT]
I just use notepad (it's free!)

If your only criteria is that it should be free, there
must be literally dozens of free editors that are so
much better than notepad.
http://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PickingATextEditor
"Basically, if you are using notepad that you're working
too hard. Get a better text editor!"
and IMHO this is very true.
Jussi Jumppanen
Author of: Zeus for Windows (New version 3.93 out now)
"The C/C++, Cobol, Java, HTML, Python, PHP, Perl programmer's editor"
Home Page: http://www.zeusedit.com

[ScottFenstermacher]

Sorry for the late addition to this thread...

If you have Microsoft Office installed, look for a file called
MSExx.exe (where xx is the version of Office). This is the Microsoft
Script Editor, and assuming you did a full install of Word you should
have it.

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[Michael Harris (MVP)]

Post by ScottFenstermacher
Sorry for the late addition to this thread...
If you have Microsoft Office installed, look for a file called
MSExx.exe (where xx is the version of Office). This is the Microsoft
Script Editor, and assuming you did a full install of Word you should
have it.

In case it isn't installed (comes with all Office 2000/XP/2003 apps)...

To install the optional Microsoft Script Editor
--> Add/Remove programs, <your Office 2000/XP app>
--> change, add or remove features

then look under Office Tools -> HTML Source Editing -> Web Scripting.

With the Office XP version of MSE (MSE7.EXE), syntax coloring and
IntelliSense both work great right out of the box. It already knows about
js/vbs/wsf script extensions (I had to add the wsc extension manually).

You can also pass a file name via the command line when you start MSE7.EXE
and it will open the script in the editor (the mse.exe Office 2000 version
wouldn't accept a file name via the command line).

You can't start the debugger for WSH hosted script files via the Debug /
Start menu. But there is a 'View/Open With...' menu option. The Open With
dialog already had wscript.exe as an option.

You can add more 'View/Open With...' choices for:

wscript.exe //d --> which I named wscript (debug enabled)
wscript.exe //x --> which I named wscript (start in debugger)

and cscript.exe versions as well. The dialog complains (only a bit,
probably because of the switches) but lets you add them anyway.

What's really nice is that when you use these, you get a choice of debugging
in the current instance of MSE (where you're editing) or a new instance of
MSE or in any other available script debugger you may also have installed,
such as the various versions of VStudio.

[Joe Zapert]

Why is it that there isn't any full-fledged IDE for scripting? This drives
me nuts... I don't understand why there isn't a great context for script
composition in VS.NET 03, or coming up, 05. :-(

Post by Michael Harris (MVP)

Post by ScottFenstermacher
Sorry for the late addition to this thread...
If you have Microsoft Office installed, look for a file called
MSExx.exe (where xx is the version of Office). This is the Microsoft
Script Editor, and assuming you did a full install of Word you should
have it.

In case it isn't installed (comes with all Office 2000/XP/2003 apps)...
To install the optional Microsoft Script Editor
--> Add/Remove programs, <your Office 2000/XP app>
--> change, add or remove features
then look under Office Tools -> HTML Source Editing -> Web Scripting.
With the Office XP version of MSE (MSE7.EXE), syntax coloring and
IntelliSense both work great right out of the box. It already knows about
js/vbs/wsf script extensions (I had to add the wsc extension manually).
You can also pass a file name via the command line when you start MSE7.EXE
and it will open the script in the editor (the mse.exe Office 2000 version
wouldn't accept a file name via the command line).
You can't start the debugger for WSH hosted script files via the Debug /
Start menu. But there is a 'View/Open With...' menu option. The Open
With dialog already had wscript.exe as an option.
wscript.exe //d --> which I named wscript (debug enabled)
wscript.exe //x --> which I named wscript (start in debugger)
and cscript.exe versions as well. The dialog complains (only a bit,
probably because of the switches) but lets you add them anyway.
What's really nice is that when you use these, you get a choice of
debugging in the current instance of MSE (where you're editing) or a new
instance of MSE or in any other available script debugger you may also
have installed, such as the various versions of VStudio.
--
Michael Harris
Microsoft MVP Scripting

[Joe Zapert]

Also, my MSE7 doesn't seem to know about .vbs extensions at all. :-/ I also
have having to do New | Text Document, and the Save As , All Files and
change the extension to .vbs.

Post by Michael Harris (MVP)

Post by ScottFenstermacher
Sorry for the late addition to this thread...
If you have Microsoft Office installed, look for a file called
MSExx.exe (where xx is the version of Office). This is the Microsoft
Script Editor, and assuming you did a full install of Word you should
have it.

In case it isn't installed (comes with all Office 2000/XP/2003 apps)...
To install the optional Microsoft Script Editor
--> Add/Remove programs, <your Office 2000/XP app>
--> change, add or remove features
then look under Office Tools -> HTML Source Editing -> Web Scripting.
With the Office XP version of MSE (MSE7.EXE), syntax coloring and
IntelliSense both work great right out of the box. It already knows about
js/vbs/wsf script extensions (I had to add the wsc extension manually).
You can also pass a file name via the command line when you start MSE7.EXE
and it will open the script in the editor (the mse.exe Office 2000 version
wouldn't accept a file name via the command line).
You can't start the debugger for WSH hosted script files via the Debug /
Start menu. But there is a 'View/Open With...' menu option. The Open
With dialog already had wscript.exe as an option.
wscript.exe //d --> which I named wscript (debug enabled)
wscript.exe //x --> which I named wscript (start in debugger)
and cscript.exe versions as well. The dialog complains (only a bit,
probably because of the switches) but lets you add them anyway.
What's really nice is that when you use these, you get a choice of
debugging in the current instance of MSE (where you're editing) or a new
instance of MSE or in any other available script debugger you may also
have installed, such as the various versions of VStudio.
--
Michael Harris
Microsoft MVP Scripting

[j***@comcast.net]

Decent open source editor is SciTE at http://www.scintilla.org

Post by Joe Zapert
Also, my MSE7 doesn't seem to know about .vbs extensions at all. :-/ I also
have having to do New | Text Document, and the Save As , All Files and
change the extension to .vbs.

Post by Michael Harris (MVP)

Post by ScottFenstermacher
Sorry for the late addition to this thread...
If you have Microsoft Office installed, look for a file called
MSExx.exe (where xx is the version of Office). This is the

Microsoft

Post by Joe Zapert

Post by Michael Harris (MVP)

Post by ScottFenstermacher
Script Editor, and assuming you did a full install of Word you should
have it.

In case it isn't installed (comes with all Office 2000/XP/2003 apps)...
To install the optional Microsoft Script Editor
--> Add/Remove programs, <your Office 2000/XP app>
--> change, add or remove features
then look under Office Tools -> HTML Source Editing -> Web

Scripting.

Post by Joe Zapert

Post by Michael Harris (MVP)
With the Office XP version of MSE (MSE7.EXE), syntax coloring and
IntelliSense both work great right out of the box. It already knows about
js/vbs/wsf script extensions (I had to add the wsc extension

manually).

Post by Joe Zapert

Post by Michael Harris (MVP)
You can also pass a file name via the command line when you start MSE7.EXE
and it will open the script in the editor (the mse.exe Office 2000 version
wouldn't accept a file name via the command line).
You can't start the debugger for WSH hosted script files via the Debug /
Start menu. But there is a 'View/Open With...' menu option. The Open
With dialog already had wscript.exe as an option.
wscript.exe //d --> which I named wscript (debug enabled)
wscript.exe //x --> which I named wscript (start in debugger)
and cscript.exe versions as well. The dialog complains (only a bit,
probably because of the switches) but lets you add them anyway.
What's really nice is that when you use these, you get a choice of
debugging in the current instance of MSE (where you're editing) or a new
instance of MSE or in any other available script debugger you may also
have installed, such as the various versions of VStudio.
--
Michael Harris
Microsoft MVP Scripting