What is the preferred environment for authoring VBScript and/or building script solutions for the Windows Script Host? Since I have a MSDN subscription, I could choose something from Microsoft, but 3rd party tools aren't excluded, either.
(Below some background, mainly optional reading - the above question still remains.)
I wasn't planning on doing anything particular with VBScript at the moment, rather, I got curious about the "state of VBScript (tooling)" after reading the release notes from the Microsoft post-security bulletin mentioning problems affecting VBScript.
Mainly, I am curious to do some tinkering and test out how the example scripts in this KB article You receive a VBScript "Type Mismatch" script error message in Internet Explorer after you install cumulative security update 974455 behave before and after applying the patch.
Since I have both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 installed, I figured I'd launch either of them as my script editor and paste in the VBScript fragments from the KB and see what happens.
After browsing through the various VS project types, I didn't find anything suitable for VBScript ad-hoc testing. Searching for help in MSDN didn't return anything useful. Most of the script-related documentation seems to originate from the pre-.NET era and looks very outdated in regards to tooling.
So, back to the question: What is the tooling (editing, debugging etc.) story in regards to the Windows Script Host -based languages? What other options do I have besides Notepad and running .vbs/.wsh/.??? files manually from the console with [c|w]script.exe?
Does current Visual Studio - especially the upcoming 2010 version - provide anything decent for people interested in Active Scripting? I know .NET 4.0 introduces the DLR, but that's another story.
I've noticed Microsoft has put in some "COM love" in VS2010, but is ther anything new for COM scripting - or even for debugging those old .asp pages? (Getting slightly off-topic?)