Beginner VBS (Visual Basic Script) [TUT]

Beginner VBS

Okay, let's get straight into it.

1 ) Open Notepad, if you can't find it, go to Start -> Run -> Notepad.exe

2 ) Type (or copy and paste) the following into Notepad.

Msgbox "Hello World!"

3) After, go to File -> Save As ->
Save the file name as 'Test.vbs'
Click the dropdown arrow on 'Save as type' and select 'All files'. If you don't do this, it will not work.
Save it anywhere.

4 ) Find the file and open it, you should see this:

Adding icons, titles and options.

1 ) Okay, this is slightly more complex, the options won't actually be an existing command, because this is only a beginner tutorial.

2 ) Open another notepad.

3 ) Insert the following;

Msgbox "Would you like to activate the hack?", _
vbYesNo + vbQuestion, _
"The-Underground"

4 ) Repeat the previous steps, ensuring you save the type as All files and putting '.vbs' at the end of the name.

5 ) Locate the file and open it, you should get this:

Template

1 ) You can use this template to change the above:

Msgbox " MESSAGE " <--- You put your message in here.

vbCHOICE <--- You can put many thing's in here, for example:


vbOkOnly
vbOkCancel
vbYesNo

+ vbICON, _ <--- Again, you can put many thing's in here, that will decide the icon.

vbCritical (Red Cross)
vbQuestion (Blue question mark)
vbInformation (Information icon)
vbExclamation (Yellow exclamation mark)

" TITLE " <--- This is what you want the title to be, so for example the one you made earlier was "The-Underground."





So, here is the finnished basic template:

Msgbox " MESSAGE ", _
vbCHOICE + vbICON, _
" TITLE "

Only change the stuff in capitals, the two bits which are a comma and underscore ( , _ ) must remain.
Keep alert for the Intermediate and Advanced VBS tutorials!
Thank's for reading, any corrections or questions leave a comment.
-Oliver.

Wow, A very usefull tutorial, maybe you could show us how to open files using one of the decesions on another TUT, thanks very much oliver.

REP ++
Kiz

Nice one but ill think I stick to VB6 and VB2008 instead of notepad...

But anyways great for n00bs

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