ScriptEngine Property

ScriptEngine Property

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Class

Microsoft.VisualBasic.Globals

Syntax

 ScriptEngine 

Return Value

A String containing the value "VB"

Description

Indicates the programming language currently in use

Rules at a Glance

ScriptEngine is a read-only property.

Programming Tips and Gotchas

• A number of scripting engines support a ScriptEngine property or function, which allows you to determine the programming language used for a particular block of code. These languages, and the strings they return, are shown in the following table:

Language	String
Microsoft Jscript	JScript
VB.NET	VB
VBScript	VBScript

• The ScriptEngine property can be most useful when calling legacy code. On the .NET platform, the need to know the current scripting engine is substantially lessened by the existence of a unified type system.

VB.NET/VB 6 Differences

The property is new to VB.NET and is not supported in VB 6.

See Also

ScriptEngineMinorVersion Property, ScriptEngineMajorVersion Property, ScriptEngineBuildVersion Property