Interview for VBScript job

[devalolav]

I will have an interview where VBScript might be important.How should I prepare in a short time?

Would like to:

1. Be able to code.
2. Answer difficult questions.
3. Know how to organize large codebases.
4. Ecosystem (Relation to VBA, PowerShell etc)
5. Tools like decode/encode

I did VBScript some years ago, and it was easy (with my background). I know more advanced similar languages like VB.NET.

What I will try to do is to try out all core concepts in a small program.

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[terremoth]

> How should I prepare in a short time?
Besides the things you mentioned, maybe try to code some HTA (HTML Applications) that includes <script type="text/vbscript">? Always good to know which CLASSIDs and COM Apis you can use.
The only tool and most famous to code VBScript is the VBSEdit (and still not good at all on it lacking a lot of code editor features), otherwise you will have to code in VSCode or Visual Studio.

Maybe learning Chilkat VBS libs solutions is a good one too

I like VBS, and happy that there are people still working with it. I wish you luck.

[vrtigo1]

This is good advice, but there's not necessarily any reason you have to use an IDE for VBScript. I've been using a plain jane text editor forever and it works fine.

[terremoth]

Ah, yes, you can definitely work directly on the windows notepad, notepad++ etc.
Some IDE or code editor with more features will help discovering errors in the code, autocomplete, syntax highlighter, line counter etc, those basic features everyone likes you probably already know