What is the best way to manage the classic asp interface with Visual Studio 2008?

Question

I support a third-party system that uses COM, classic ASP, and SQL Server. Our company has switched to using TFS as our provider of control sources - which pushes things through Visual Studio. So what is the best way to get the classic asp interface in Visual Studio?

Answer 1

When I had to do this, I created an empty solution in VS, and then added folders from the ASP site one at a time, adding “existing items” to each folder when I created it.

That way, I can open a solution that keeps track of which files I had open, finally I get the benefits of intellisense

Answer 2

I have done this often over the last 5 years ...

You can create an empty website or even create a standard (.NET) website and simply delete the default material (web.config, etc.). Note: create a website, create a solution, and add a website project to it, which is perhaps a little preferable to just adding files and folders to the solution.

As Jeff says, you get most of the benefits of VS, including intellisense.

Suck it and see ... You have a violin - you won’t break anything!

Answer 3

Have any of you heard of Visual Express 2008 Express Edition? Work me miracles. Most importantly, as soon as you ask to open a website in it, it opens every folder of the proposed website, and when you save the project, it does what you need to do to open this website in a regular visual studio.

It has the limited ability to even convert simple classic ASP pages to NET code!

Answer 4

Create an empty solution in VS and add all the files by selecting "Add Existing Item".