Majerus.net Active Shell or MAS was developed to be a script-based command shell (CLI). When you type commands at the MAS prompt, MAS plays the part of the host application, it interact with the selected script engine to get your command executed, and makes objects and services available for the script. It makes it easy to interact with Automation objects and ActiveX objects and controls.Because Windows and Windows Server System offers most of their settings and management through COM objects, MAS can be used to control these immeditely at the command prompt. There are literaly hundreds, in not thousands of objects available for use in a standard Windows installation.MAS help file contains a complete users guide that shows how to use Windows Script Runtime and Windows Script Host components, script the Windows shell, Microsoft Agent assistants, common applications such as Microsoft Office, access databases and files using ADO and MSXML, call Web services using MSSOAP, inspect and modify the computer configuration using WMI (WBEM), encode audio and video using Windows Media Encoder, and many others, in several scripting languages including Microsoft JScript, Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript), RubyScript (ActiveRubyScript), PerlScript, Python and ForthScript. Limited functionnality is also available using ObjectRexxScript and PHPScript.It also includes Majerus.net Active Shell .NET, also known as MASX, which is the .NET Framework + DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) conterpart of the native COM/OLE Automation + Active Scripting version of MAS. It provides the same experience with .NET DLR script engines and .NET objects, giving full access to the .NET Framework using managed script engines such as Managed JScript and IronPython, and later, Dynamic Visual Basic (VBX) and IronRuby.By enabling interactive execution and identical MAS features such as rich text formatting and dynamic help with DLR engines, it makes prototyping and learning these languages and the .NET Class Library easy and practical, and provides an alternative to the Windows PowerShell to use .NET objects interactively from the command prompt.A script-based command shell (CLI)
