Windows Script File

A Windows Script File (WSF) is a file type used by the Microsoft Windows Script Host. It allows mixing the scripting languages JScript and VBScript within a single file, or other scripting languages such as Perl, Object REXX, Python, or Kixtart if installed by the user. These types of scripts may also be used to link many other external scripts together using a src parameter on the <script></code> tag in a manner similar to <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>. Windows Script Files have the extension <code>".WSF"</code>. A WSF makes reference to each script module in a very basic <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> hierarchy as shown below, adhering to those standards outside the <code class="nowrap" style=""><script></code> tags. Literal use of "<code class="nowrap" style=""></s

Comment: enA Windows Script File (WSF) is a file type used by the Microsoft Windows Script Host. It allows mixing the scripting languages JScript and VBScript within a single file, or other scripting languages such as Perl, Object REXX, Python, or Kixtart if installed by the user. These types of scripts may also be used to link many other external scripts together using a src parameter on the <script></code> tag in a manner similar to <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>. Windows Script Files have the extension <code>".WSF"</code>. A WSF makes reference to each script module in a very basic <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> hierarchy as shown below, adhering to those standards outside the <code class="nowrap" style=""><script></code> tags. Literal use of "<code class="nowrap" style=""></s
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Has abstract: enA Windows Script File (WSF) is a file type used by the Microsoft Windows Script Host. It allows mixing the scripting languages JScript and VBScript within a single file, or other scripting languages such as Perl, Object REXX, Python, or Kixtart if installed by the user. These types of scripts may also be used to link many other external scripts together using a src parameter on the <script></code> tag in a manner similar to <a href="/wiki/HTML" title="HTML">HTML</a>. Windows Script Files have the extension <code>".WSF"</code>. A WSF makes reference to each script module in a very basic <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> hierarchy as shown below, adhering to those standards outside the <code class="nowrap" style=""><script></code> tags. Literal use of "<code class="nowrap" style=""></script>" or "<script></code>" inside your <code class="nowrap" style=""><script></code> tags and similar challenges can be handled by the use of <a href="/wiki/CDATA" title="CDATA">CDATA</a>, as shown within the examples.<div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div><ul><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Error_isolation">1 Error isolation</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Mixed_language_support">2 Mixed language support</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Exposing_constants">3 Exposing constants</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also">4 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#External_links">5 External links</a></li></ul></div><h2>Error isolation[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Windows_Script_File&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Error isolation">edit</a>]</h2>A WSF may be useful for isolating errors. Its modular nature prevents one script reference from interfering with another. Here is a WSF example with one module that produces an error and one that does not:<div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-aspx-vb mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><?xml version="1.0" ?> <job id="Partially works">  <script language="VBScript">' <![CDATA[ WScript.echo 4/0 ' Oh, boy! You cannot divide by zero... ]]> </script>  <script< pan> language= "VBScript" > < ! [ CDATA [ WScript . echo "Hello, Scripters!" & vbNewline & _ "Fantastic! It worked!" ' ]]> </script<>
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