If you’re not up on the news, Microsoft has decided to deprecate and remove VBScript!
Microsoft Announces the Death of VBScript
As seems to be their new modus operandi, Microsoft has quietly rolled a hand grenade into the VBA development world with very little fanfare.
Impact of VBScript Deprecation
As an FYI for those of you curious, I’ve been trying to ascertain the true impact of the VBScript deprecation. Sadly, the official announcement provides 0 details whatsoever as to the impacted libraries/components. Feel free to check for yourself by using the 2 links provided below:
VBScript deprecation: Timelines and next steps
Learn about the deprecation of Visual Basic Scripting edition.
Well, some are trying to change that!
That’s right. They have started an online petition asking Microsoft to cancel their plans to kill off VBScript and Classic ASP.
If you want to support the cause, then go to:
and feel free to spread the word.
Think You’re Not Impacted By This, Think Again!!!
I know many developers may think that this doesn’t impact them, that they don’t use VBScript in their solutions.
Well, you might be amazed that it may just impact you because VBScript drives several libraries used VERY commonly in VBA (and other languages), you just don’t realize it!
- File System Object (FSO)
- Regular Expressions (RegEx)
- Dictionaries
- and more!