Editing VBScript (section)

== Uses ==
Although VBScript is a general-purpose scripting language, several particular areas of use are noteworthy. First, it used to be widely used among system administrators in the Microsoft environment,<ref>[https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/default.aspx Script Center], Microsoft web site targeting system administration scriptors</ref> but it has since been vastly surpassed by [[PowerShell]]. Second, VBScript is the scripting language for [[UFT One|OpenText UFT One]], a test automation tool.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://knol.google.com/k/quick-test-professional-software-test-automation-tool#Basics_of_vbscript|title=''Quick Test Professional – Basics of VBScript''|access-date=2010-05-05|archive-date=2010-02-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217055646/http://knol.google.com/k/quick-test-professional-software-test-automation-tool#Basics_of_vbscript|url-status=dead}}</ref> A third area to note is the adoption of VBScript as the internal scripting language for some embedded applications, such as industrial operator interfaces and human machine interfaces. The hierarchical DBMS [[InterSystems]] [[Caché (software)|Caché]] (which has its roots in the language [[MUMPS]]) also supports an implementation of VBScript, Cache BASIC, for programming stored code.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.intersystems.com/cache/technology/components/script/index.html |title=Caché for Unstructured Data Analysis |publisher=InterSystems |access-date=2018-09-24}}</ref>

VBScript omits several useful features of the full Visual Basic, such as strong typing, extended error trapping and the ability to pass a variable number of parameters to a subroutine. However, its use is relatively widespread because it is easy to learn and because those who implement code in the language need not pay royalties to Microsoft as long as the VBScript trade mark is acknowledged.{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}} When an organization licenses [[Visual Basic for Applications]] (VBA) from Microsoft, as companies such as Autodesk, StatSoft, Great Plains Accounting and Visio (subsequently acquired by Microsoft) have done, it is allowed to redistribute the full VBA code-writing and debugging environment with its product.

VBScript is used in place of VBA as the macro language of Outlook 97.

VBScript can be effectively used for automating day to day office tasks as well as monitoring in the Windows-based environment. It can also be used in collaboration with ADODB [[ActiveX Data Objects]] (ADODB) for effective database connectivity.

VBScript can also be used to create [[malware]] and viruses, such as the [[ILOVEYOU]] worm that spread through email attachment in Outlook 97 that cost billions of dollars.