How to find Microsoft JScript and VBScript engines versions through powershell

Question

Is there any standard way to find the installed JScript and VBScript engines versions in a windows machine through Powershell commands or any other way around like by means of installed File version or any such way?

Answer 1

PS C:\> (get-item "c:\windows\system32\vbscript.dll").VersionInfo.FileVersion
5.812.10240.16384
PS C:\> (get-item "c:\windows\system32\jscript.dll").VersionInfo.FileVersion
5.812.10240.16384

Or, out of powershell, you can ask the engines.

<?XML version="1.0" standalone="yes" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<package>
<job id="checkVersions" prompt="no">
<?job error="true" debug="false" timeout="10" ?>
<script id="checkVersionVBS" language="VBScript"><![CDATA[
    Call WScript.StdOut.WriteLine ( _ 
        Join(Array( _ 
            ScriptEngine, ScriptEngineMajorVersion, ScriptEngineMinorVersion, ScriptEngineBuildVersion _ 
        ), ".") _ 
    )
]]></script>
<script id="checkVersionJS" language="JScript"><![CDATA[
    WScript.StdOut.WriteLine( [
        ScriptEngine(), ScriptEngineMajorVersion(), ScriptEngineMinorVersion(), ScriptEngineBuildVersion()
    ].join('.'));
]]></script>
</job>
</package>

Saved as versions.wsf file and run as cscript //nologo versions.wsf you will get something like

W:\>cscript //nologo versions.wsf
VBScript.5.8.16384
JScript.5.8.16384