I am coming from the django world to maintain a fairly complicated classic asp site. Unfortunately the site is riddled with uncommented, copy/pasted, spaghetti code spread out over several hundred files hidden away in a few dozen directories.
To be curt, it's a bit of a nightmare ;)
Anyway, I am most familiar with eclipse, and I was wondering if Visual Studio 2008 can do the kind of debugging capabilities you would expect from such a prolific IDE. Can I step through this asp application line by line, set break points, and view the contents of variables on the fly? if so how?
If I need to add everything to a project, what is the best way to bring it all in? I havn't used vs in a while, but last I checked it liked to add a lot of files to your web server. Is that still an issue?
thanks so much, my sanity may depend on it lol
edit: I should note that I'm not married to using vs2008, if you know of other debugging tools that you think are better, let me know! I'll use anything as long as there is documentation :)
The quickest way to drop into the debugger is to write the word
Stop
somewhere in your asp file. As soon as you load the page and that is hit, the debugger will popup.
try to find some input here, seems promising
I could make it work...
has anybody been able to debug asp classic code with visual studio 2005 or later?
following these instructions...
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/debug/DebugVBScriptVS2008.aspx
http://codepagoda.com/2009/04/30/debugging-classic-asp-with-visual-studio-2008-sp1-and-35-framework/
but after a couple of days it just broke down...
I can no longer debug classic asp code with visual studio 2008
I hope you'll have more luck than me