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With a nod to the past success of macro viruses, more than a quarter of all document malware now spreads via Microsoft's Visual Basic scripting language.

VBScript (Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is a scripting language used by some websites, but it is slowly becoming obsolete because of new languages and development.

PowerGUI brings PowerShell scripting support to Visual Studio. This extension by Quest Software leverages the PowerGUI standalone tool to provide syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, debugging and ...

PowerShell Core, the version aimed at providing scripting capabilities across a number of platforms, will eventually supersede the Windows-only version. A beta is available now, with a full release ...

What do you folks consider the best visual programming language (i.e. a language in which you write code visually via a drag and drop or other mechanism not something like Visual Basic)? I have a ...

Tech Tech Industry Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language Company unveils first beta of IronPython, a .Net implementation of Python, in hopes of luring programmers to Windows.

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. According to the TIOBE ...

Why natural language AI scripting in Microsoft Excel could be a game changer What if you could run advanced Excel analyses with no coding skills?

Tom Baeyens has released a preview of RockScript, an open source scripting language and engine for integrating and orchestrating microservices. RockScript uses a language that looks much like ...