INFO: Visual Basic for Applications Features Not in VBScript

ID: Q190273

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft Visual Basic, Scripting Edition, versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0

SUMMARY

Here is a list of features or keywords in Visual Basic for Applications that have been omitted from VBScript.

MORE INFORMATION

Following are Visual Basic for Applications features that are not in VBScript:

   Category                Omitted Feature/Keyword
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   Array Handling          Option Base
                           Declaring arrays with lower bound <> 0

   Collection              Add, Count, Item, Remove
                           Access to collections using ! character
                             (e.g., MyCollection!Test)

   Conditional Compilation #Const
                           #If...Then...#Else

   Control Flow            DoEvents
                           GoSub...Return, GoTo
                           On Error GoTo
                           On...GoSub, On...GoTo
                           Line numbers, Line labels
                           With...End With

   Conversion              CVar, CVDate
                           Str, Val

   Data Types              All intrinsic data types except Variant
                           Type...End Type

   Date/Time               Date statement, Time statement
                           Timer

   DDE                     LinkExecute, LinkPoke, LinkRequest, LinkSend

   Debugging               Debug.Print
                           End, Stop

   Declaration             Declare (for declaring DLLs)
                           New
                           Optional
                           ParamArray
                           Property Get, Property Let, Property Set
                           Static

   Error Handling          Erl
                           Error
                           On Error...Resume
                           Resume, Resume Next

   File Input/Output       All traditional Basic file I/O

   Financial               All financial functions

   Object Manipulation     TypeOf

   Objects                 Clipboard
                           Collection

   Operators               Like

   Options                 Deftype
                           Option Base
                           Option Compare
                           Option Private Module

   Select Case             Expressions containing Is keyword or any
                           comparison operators
                           Expressions containing a range of values using
                           the To keyword.

   Strings                 Fixed-length strings
                           LSet, RSet
                           Mid Statement
                           StrConv

   Using Objects           Collection access using !

REFERENCES

Further information is available at the following Web site:

   http://www.microsoft.com/scripting/ 

Keywords          : kbVBScript 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0,1.1,2.0,3.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: July 28, 1998