How to Use this Tutorial

This tutorial is a stand-alone introduction to VBScript. It is laid out in a series of five lessons. Each lesson introduces you to a new segment of the VBScript language. Along the way you will learn how to add calculations, formatting and validations to your web pages. At the end of each lesson is an exercise where you, the reader, get to try out your newly acquired knowledge by building web pages utilizing VBScript. The topics of the lessons are:

An Introduction to VBScript-You will learn how to add VBScript into a web page and alternate methods for linking scripts with HTML

Working with Variables-What would any language be without variables? Here you learn how to define and use variables in your script routines

Using Objects with VBScript-Java applets and ActiveX controls extend the HTML environment. In this lesson you will learn how to tie these objects together using VBScript

Controlling Your VBScript Routines-Conditional statements (If...Then...Else, Select...Case) and looping (For...Next and Do...Loop) are the topic of this section

Using VBScript with Forms-With VBScript you can validate forms before they are submitted. You see how in lesson 5

Step-by-step Exercises

As was mentioned above, each of the five lessons has a worked exercise, which demonstrates how to use the topics that were presented. Along the way you will find descriptions of each component of the example, so that by the end you will have a sound understanding of the lesson's topic.

A copy of the completed exercises can be found at http://webdev.wrox.co.uk/books/0685. Each lesson will have two or more completed examples that are referenced in the step-by-step instructions.

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VBScript Tutorial

Contents
· What is VBScript?
· How to Use this Tutorial

Lesson 1
· Adding VBScript to Web Pages
· The <SCRIPT> Tag
· Non-Supporting Browsers
· Your 1stirst VBScript Exercise

Lesson 2
· Working with Variables
· Declaring Variables
· Scope of Variables
· Constants
· Arrays
· Your 2nd VBScript Exercise

Lesson 3
· Objects and VBScript
· Adding Objects to Web Pages
· Linking VBScript with Objects
· Your 3rd VBScript Exercise

Lesson 4
· Controlling VBScript Routines
· Conditional Statements
· Looping Statements
· Your 4th VBScript Exercise

Lesson 5
· Using VBScript with Forms
· Validating Your Forms
· Your 5th VBScript Exercise

· Summary

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