Question

Is there any kind of online “quick” asp/vbscript test tool? It’s a pain to load up a test page, put all the stuff in, when I just want to test some ASP VBScript.

Answer 1

Yes, they are called .vbs files. These files are plain text files with a .vbs extenstion. You can run them from the command line. There are some minor differences, just google vbs or WSCript.

One of the most annoying issues is you cannot use response.write instead you use WScript.Echo. This displays the result in a windows style popup messagebox. So, if you use it in a loop to display values, you will have to close the box once for each value that is displayed. Can be a pain. I just contcatonate the results and display one message.

For example save the below code as myloop.vbs

Dim strMsg
Dim i

strMsg = ""
for i = 1 to 10
  strMsg = strMsg & CStr(i) & vbCrLf
next
WScript.Echo strMsg

Double-click on myloop.vbs and it runs.

This is a pretty cool way to test out a concept without having to create an asp page and load it on the server.