I’ve shown you all of the basics you need to incorporate logging into your scripts. Be sure to check out the second part of this series, “Error Trapping and Capturing Third-Party Output” to learn how to make your log files more effective.
Be sure to download the code source for this article. In it you will find a complete logging script with ready to use subroutines. You can use them as is or customize them to your liking. Either way they should provide you with a good foundation for adding logging to your scripts.
In the second part of this article you will learn how to effectively trap execution errors in your code with VBScript’s Err object, how to log information to the system’s Application Event Log, and how to capture the output of third-party programs executed by your script.
My hope is that this series will aid you in becoming better code writers. Proper error-handling and logging are two of the techniques that make your code much more useful and more professional. You should try to incorporate this into all of your scripts. Stick around for part two. Until next time, keep coding!
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