will visual studio 2010 support classic asp?

Question

I'm using visual studio 2008 for a classic asp application. Will I be able to upgrade to visual studio 2010?

Answer 1

For anyone who wants Syntax Highlighting in VS 2010 and can't get it working. I think this works.

Tools>Options>TextEditor>FileExtension

Add the extension ASP and it should be attached to "HTML Editor with Encoding".

Answer 2

Usually you can manually deploy an asp web site direclty to the inetpub\wwwroot folder (just paste all of your required web page files to the wwwroot directory), where your default.asp page should reside at the root of wwwroot, if that makes any sense.

Then you can create an empty web site with a single project, start your web site by entering http:\localhost in to a new browser window, and you should see your default page displayed.

You can add all of the extermely old asp files to your new fangeled visual studio 2010 application directly from the wwwroot directory.

You should be able to compile your application but you won't be able to debug it at this point.

To debug the ancient application, simply attach to the internet explorer process with the title of your outdated web application (or the wp3p process....), and you will then have debugging functionality.

Or, you can wait for the old yet useful app to throw an error and then use visual studio 2010 as the J.I.T.debugger. Hope this helps as well.

Happy coding! (if that is possible in classic asp, thank GOD for visual studio)

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Answer 3

I updated my project from VS2008 to VS2010 and everything has been going alright.

In order to get debugging to work with javascript in a script block I have to add a debugger; statement to get it to break. If you have the javascript in a seperate file you can debug with just a break point. The Classic asp will still debug if I attach to the w3wp process.

The javascript intellisense has been working better for me in VS2010 than in VS2008. In VS2008 I had issues with it crashing when I stopped debugging classic ASP. In VS2010 I don't have that problem any more.

Overall I'd say VS2010 does classic ASP development better than VS2008.

Answer 4

Yes, classic ASP can be developed just fine in VS2010 as it does in VS2008 SP1.

Answer 5

I've found this msdn page

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241740.aspx

it says:

Although the primary focus of Web debugging in Visual Studio 2010 is ASP.NET, you can also debug legacy ASP Web applications.

ASP Web applications consist of scripts, which run on the client in .htm files and on the server in .asp files; the Global.asa file; and .cdf files. Scripts can be in VBScript, JScript, or a mix of VBScript and JScript. They may also be mixed with HTML code and COM objects. You can debug ASP Web applications containing all of these elements.

Right now I'm working on classic asp pages with visual studio 2008 an everything works fine, I can even debug classic asp...

Still couldn't try it with vs 2010, but the page above gives me some hope...

Answer 6

To get VS2010 to support .inc files as well as .asp files, see the related question Can Visual Studio 2010 do ".inc" file syntax highlighting?

VS2010 syntax highlighting for .inc files isn't very good even with the Web Form Editor in use; the HTML shows up fine but the VBScript looks like plain text.