What replacements are available for vbscript in an application?

Question

An application I maintain has been around since VB6 days - ported to .Net 1.1, and now being updated/rewritten across to .Net 3.5

The application provides a mechanism to run VBScripts - this was done in a highly integrated way - allowing the program to parse multiple .vbs files and produce a list of all of the subroutines and functions - which were then available within the application alongside core functions.

Previously this was an embedded msscript.ocx - in the first .Net conversion, this was wrapped in Interop.MSScriptControl.dll, however, on Windows 7 this just isn't working.

It looks like this is really not the way to be doing this anyway - Microsoft seem to be trying to kill vbscript.

Is there a 'supported' way of using VBScript, or is it time to move on? and if so, where is there to move to that provides the same sort of functionality?

Answer 1

PowerShell is the really the way you want to go if you want to do scripting. Here are some of the new features in PowerShell on Windows 7. Here is a VBScript to PowerShell conversion guide.

There are also tons of great resources over at PowerShell.com including a nice IDE.