Shell scripting (automation) has been enhanced in Visual C++ 6.0 to give you more flexibility in creating and building projects.
New Automation Properties and Methods
| New property | Action |
| IConfiguration::Configurations | Gets the Configurations object for the project. The Configurations object contains all configuration objects which are in the subprojects of this project and have a matching configuration name. |
| IApplication::Errors | Gets the number of errors that occurred during the last build. |
| IApplication::Warnings | Gets the number of warnings that occurred during the last build. |
| New method | Action |
| IBuildProject::AddConfiguration | Adds a configuration to the project. |
| IConfiguration::AddCustomBuildStepToFile | Adds a custom build step to a specified file. |
| IBuildProject::AddFile | Adds a file to the project. |
| IConfiguration::AddFileSettings | Changes the settings of a specified file. |
| IApplication::AddProject | Creates a new project and adds it to the workspace. |
| IApplication::Clean | Cleans a specified configuration by deleting all intermediate and output files generated by the configuration. |
| IConfiguration::MakeCurrentSettingsDefault | Changes the default settings for this configuration to the values of the current settings. |
| IConfiguration::RemoveFileSettings | Removes the settings of a specified file. |
See Overview: Automation and Reference: Developer Studio Objects.
If you have Visual Studio installed, the Script Debugger enables you to debug shell automation scripts, as well as HTML pages that contain Visual Basic® Scripting Edition (VBScript) or JScript™ (Microsoft's implementation of JavaScript™). If your shell script contains an error, a dialog box automatically appears and prompts you to run the Script Debugger. See also Script Debugger (http://www.microsoft.com/scripting/debugger).