Visual Basic Script Compatibility

WinWrap® Basic is an embedded macro language component available for .NET and COM 32 bit and 64 bit Windows applications. The WinWrap® Basic OCX Component is compatible with Visual Basic Script.

The WinWrap® Basic Scripting Engine provides both end-users and developers with a complete VB Script compatibility solution.

WinWrap® Basic WWB-COM Scripting Language VBScript Compatibility:

Support for VB Script style scripts
Fully compatible support for VBS legacy scripts
Access to the ActiveX Host Application via COM
Access to the .NET Host Application via COM interop
32 Bit and 64 Bit Windows native support

Provide Users with a Complete VB Script Scripting Development Environment

Full WinWrap® Basic VBScript script editing
Powerful auto completion capability for WWB VBS scripts
Complete debugging capability for WWB VBS scripts
Built-in Visual Basic Script scripting documentation

Applications including the WinWrap® Basic dll ship with a fully featured development environment including an editor and a debugger. The WinWrap® Basic software package is used in conjunction with Microsoft development tools including Visual Studio, Visual Studio.NET, Visual Studio Express, and the ActiveX scripting engines.

Basic has long been considered the best language for user scripting and user application extensions. Basic has a reputation as being the easiest language for non-developer users to understand and use.

Migrating to .NET

If you are considering transitioning your Windows host application to a .NET host application, the following code demonstrates how the legacy Visual Basic Script code is fully supported in both hosts by the WinWrap® Scripting Language control. The host application creates the application object and then extends the WinWrap® Basic language using the BasicIdeCtl, AddExtension, and AddExtensionWithEvents methods.

WinWrap® Basic script accessing a host application object

Sub Main ' modify .NET/COM host application object AppObject.Value = "hi" End Sub ' value changed event for .NET/COM host application object Public Sub AppObject_ValueChanged() ' display .NET/COM application object changed value MsgBox AppObject.Value End Sub

VB.NET code for .NET host

AppObject class module:

<Microsoft.VisualBasic.ComClass(), _ System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisible(True)> _ Public Class AppObject Private value_ As String Public Event ValueChanged() Public Property Value() As String Get Value = value_ End Get Set(ByVal Value As String) value_ = Value Try RaiseEvent ValueChanged() Catch End Try End Set End Property End Class

.NET host application developers can utilize the .NET Host COM interop capability to provide complete compatibility for existing Visual Basic Script legacy scripts. And, enjoy all the features of .NET in your Host Application.

Summary

The WinWrap® Basic Scripting Object provides both end-users and developers with a complete Visual Basic Script application automation and customization solution.

Whether you are migrating to .NET or are continuing to use VB6, the WinWrap® Basic Scripting Engine Version 10 will provide VBS script compatibility for your customers.

Visual Basic Script Compatibility Articles

Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) on Wikipedia, "Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), formerly called Visual Basic (VB), is an object-oriented computer programming language that can be viewed as an evolution of Microsoft's Visual Basic (VB) implemented on the Microsoft .NET Framework." Wikipedia article.
Lowering the barriers to programming: A taxonomy of programming environments and languages for novice programmers by Caitlin Kelleher and Randy Pausch, "Basic was designed to teach Dartmouth's non-science students about computing through programming. The Basic (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) language was designed to support a small set of instructions and remove unnecessary syntax." ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 37, Issue 2 (June 2005), Pages: 83 - 137.