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Running a Visual Basic Scripting Edition Query

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You can run a script written in Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) to submit a query (or to perform a managing task) with Windows Script Host in several ways, which include the following.

To execute a query such as VBScript.vbs as a command-prompt application

  1. Open a command window and change the directory to the path of the script.
  2. Submit the query by entering, at the command-line prompt, cscript vbscript.vbs

The output of the script appears in the command window.

To execute a query such as VBScript.vbs as a Windows application

  1. Select Start, Run... from the Windows toolbar.
  2. Submit the query by entering the absolute path of the script in the Open dialog box or by clicking the Browse button to find the appropriate directory and select the script file.

The output of each Echo method in the script appears in a separate dialog box. This is handy for debugging, but for a query with a large number of matches you will need to close each dialog box to proceed.