Is it possible to embed and execute VBScript within a batch file without using a temporary file?

Question

People have been embedding and executing VBScript within batch files for a long time. But all the published solutions that I have seen (at the time this question was ori

Answer 1

I don't how much exactly the VB.NET counts for VBScript but it is definitely VisualBasic code with some C# flavours.

With the version of msbuild there's a thing called an inline tasks that allows you to load a .net code into memory and execute it. And this can be embedded into a batch file with the a similar manner that used with wsf:

it verbose indeed though xml syntax allows almost everything to be put in one line if somebody wants (but I thing for educational reasons is better this example to be left like that). The batch code cannot contain -- so for robustness this part can be put in a CDATA also.

Other way to embed VB.NET into batch without temp files is with the help of powershell and its type definition cmdlet:

<# : batch portion
@echo off & setlocal

set "CMD_ARGS=%~1"

powershell -noprofile "iex (${%~f0} | out-string)"
goto :EOF

: end batch / begin powershell #>

param($psArg1 = $env:psArg1)


$VB = @" 
Imports System
namespace VB 
    Public Class VB
        Public Shared Sub Print()
            Console.WriteLine("PRINTED BY VB")
        End Sub
    End Class
End Namespace
"@

Add-Type -TypeDefinition $VB -Language VisualBasic


[VB.VB]::Print()