Question

I am a C# developer using Visual Studio, but I’m interested in creating some JScript or JQuery programs to run on our Windows machines. There is obviously a learning curve I’ve got to get over.

• Will JQuery run on a PC, or does it have to run on a web page?

I’d like to start by mimicing a VBScript I was presented with not long ago:

Dim wshShell
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

wshShell.Run "msiexec.exe /i ""\\CPFS2\Share Files\package.msi"" /l*v ""C:\install.txt""", 1, true
wshShell.Run "C:\install.log"

Can this be done with either JScript or JQuery?

What are good search tool terms to help me locate help on this topic? (JScript, Windows is not producing much)

Answer 1

I think this might be the JScript you’re looking for.

var shell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.shell");
shell.run("whatever");

I can’t test it right now, but even if it works, I would really recommend you look into node.js instead of using JScript.