classic asp project opening in VS2005 or 08

[jay123]

hi all,
i never knew this will be that big problem. actually i am given a Classic ASP project and asked to go through it. now i have VS2005 and VS2008 on my machine.

is their any way i can open this classic asp project in one of above VS. i have gone through lot of blog, but couldnt find an appropaite answer. right now i m opening single page with vs2008 and going through the code. but is their anyway i can access this project as a website or as a normal project as we generally do in .net. i know the classic asp project being given to me is a website, which i can see running.

any help

thanks

[jhardman]

hi all,
i never knew this will be that big problem. actually i am given a Classic ASP project and asked to go through it. now i have VS2005 and VS2008 on my machine.

is their any way i can open this classic asp project in one of above VS. i have gone through lot of blog, but couldnt find an appropaite answer. right now i m opening single page with vs2008 and going through the code. but is their anyway i can access this project as a website or as a normal project as we generally do in .net. i know the classic asp project being given to me is a website, which i can see running.

any help

thanks

Not really, there are a couple IDEs out there that could handle ASP (horrendous WYSIWYG editors - there was never any intellisense for ASP), but ASP was abandoned by M$ mostly because it had those limitations. Most of us who programmed ASP just used Notepad. That said, the code should be very simple and easy to read-through, I think most ASP programmers would wonder why you need any other IDE.

Jared

[jay123]

just out of curiousty jared, then how do people test classic asp web page. like i have just started my career in web development and i just cant think of working w/o intellisence in .net and all other features and classic is to be written in notepad. really hatsoff to classic programmers.

[jhardman]

just out of curiousty jared, then how do people test classic asp web page. like i have just started my career in web development and i just cant think of working w/o intellisence in .net and all other features and classic is to be written in notepad. really hatsoff to classic programmers.

Mostly I would have a web server running on my box (back before IIS, PWS was installed on Windows boxes), I had the script saved in the wwwroot directory, I would hit save and then refresh on the browser set to that page - so I was essentially running at every step of the process. Some people used Dreamweaver, but that made very bloated code that was near-impossible to debug and maintain, and really ASP was much more light-weight than than anything that's come out since. In some respects it is more similar to PHP than most microsoft products.

Jared