Converting VBScript Commands to Windows PowerShell Commands

This section of the VBScript-to-Windows PowerShell Conversion Guide includes all elements from the VBScript Language Refernce and is intended to help you “translate” VBScript scripts to Windows PowerShell scripts. However, this is not designed to be a word-for-word translation guide; for better or worse, things don’t quite work that way. Instead, consider this a reference as you begin writing Windows PowerShell scripts. After all, sooner or later you’re bound to run into a situation where you find yourself thinking, "OK, I need to use a Select Case statement here. I know how to do that in VBScript, but how do I do that in Windows PowerShell?” That’s where this guide can come in handy; it takes all the VBScript functions, statements, and operators and shows you, as much as possible, a Windows PowerShell equivalent.

Incidentally, we tried to find an equivalent for most of the commands in the VBScript Language Reference; however, we would never claim that we found the best equivalent for these commands. If you know of a better/faster/easier way to, say, format a number as currency in Windows PowerShell, please let us know. We’ll publish any alternate approaches as an addendum to this guide.

Download this conversion guide as a Word document (along with Windows PowerShell Week sample scripts).