VBScript

Microsoft® Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript) revolutionizes active content development for the Internet. VBScript is a high-performance scripting language designed to create active, online content on the World Wide Web, and allows developers to link and automate a wide variety of objects in Web pages, including ActiveX Controls and "applets" created using the Java language from Sun Microsystems Inc.

If you want to see VBScript before anyone else, there will be a public beta on the Internet, and you and your friends can get it then. The date of the beta is not settled, but it will be some time soon. Make sure you check this site frequently!

Read the documents listed below for more information on VBScript. Make sure to visit the VBScript Web site for additional information, samples, and more.

VBScript: Visual Basic Comes to the Net    (March 1996)
An introduction to VBScript and its features, presented with simple examples.

VBScript: Working Description    (March 1996)
Details on the Visual Basic family of products, a preliminary look at language features, and licensing terms. This spec consists of the following sections: