ID: Q190273
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Here is a list of features or keywords in Visual Basic for Applications that have been omitted from VBScript.
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 !
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