Note . Eric Lippert has posted a followup to the entry I did a couple days ago regarding WSF files. If you’d like a little more insight into why WSF files work the way they do, check it out . And now, back to our regularly-scheduled program...

I know that there are a lot of people who are afraid that Microsoft is going to take over the world (an issue we sort of talked about awhile back). Listen, trust me on this: it’s not gonna happen. Now, do I say this because I have some inside information...

Posted by Greg Stemp . Ok, so yesterday I got a bit lackadaisical, and screwed up in my blog entry. Therefore, I vowed that today I wouldn’t say anything dumb whatsoever. And, of course, the only way for me to do that is to just not say anything...

Mea culpa . Ok, I screwed up. What follows is an annotated version of the blog entry I posted earlier today, annotations courtesy of Eric Lippert (the guy who actually wrote a good portion of VBScript). As Eric points out, I made a couple of glaring mistakes...

Posted by Greg Stemp . I don’t think I have ever consciously tried to pattern my life after anybody in particular, but, subconsciously, I seem to have a lot in common with General George Armstrong Custer. Custer was a bit of an eccentric, and he...

Yesterday’s entry, combined with today’s, reminds me of the old Batman TV show. If you happen to be, as they say, of a certain age , then you no doubt remember the old Batman show, which pretty much followed the exact same theme in each and...

Posted by Greg Stemp . I guess if you walk around calling yourself a Microsoft Scripting Guy then you shouldn’t be surprised when people ask you scripting questions all the time. What’s interesting, though, is how many people ask me other...

Posted by Greg Stemp . One of the more interesting aspects about working at Microsoft is the fact that many people assume that if you work do here then you must be evil. You might think that that’s a terrible thing, and, on the whole, it probably...

This doesn’t really have anything to do with scripting, but when I was driving to work this morning I happened to pass by a construction site. The site had a sign up stating that the area was currently undergoing an environmental impact analysis...

I coach my son’s PONY League baseball team (13- and 14-year olds), and this past week we’ve been having tryouts: the kids get a chance to field some grounders and fly balls, to take some cuts in the batting cage, to run the 40-yard dash and...

Posted by Greg Stemp . If you read the previous post, it should be obvious that the Scripting Guide didn’t exactly get off to a flying start. Once we got rolling, however, we actually ended up getting way ahead of ourselves. How? Well, the truth...

Posted by Greg Stemp . In general, I think people have found the TechNet Script Center to be incredibly useful. That doesn’t mean they think the Script Center is perfect. (True confession time: It’s safe to say that we don’t think it’s...

Posted by Greg Stemp . Welcome to the Scripting Guys’ first blog. You might very well be saying to yourself, “Why a blog? Shouldn’t you guys be doing something else with your time … like, say, releasing that Active Directory browser...