Another way to debug ASP Classic (VBScript) other than the attach process using Visual Studio

Question

Are there any other tools for debugging an ASP Classic application using Visual Studio?

Now I have a classic ASP application and I use IIS 5 from WinXP. I am debugging an ASP application right now by adding DLLHOST.EXE from (Debug> Attach Process) in Visual Studio 2005.

This works fine, but sometimes when debugging, the line in which I am debugging is shifted. In addition, it becomes very tedious to repeat the Attach Tool process over and over again.

I have an old Visual Studio 6.0 interdev, can it make the F5-style seamless debugging that I can do in ASP.NET?

Actually, what annoys me when debugging with Visual Studio 2005, I need to attach dllhost.exe every time when debugging.

Answer 1

You can make a macro in VS2005 to do this.

http://blogs.msdn.com/jimgries/archive/2005/11/30/498264.aspx

Contains an example of joining a Calc process.

Sub AttachToCalc()
       Try

              Dim dbg2 As EnvDTE80.Debugger2 = DTE.Debugger
              Dim trans As EnvDTE80.Transport = dbg2.Transports.Item("Default")
              Dim dbgeng(1) As EnvDTE80.Engine

              dbgeng(0) = trans.Engines.Item("Native")

              Dim proc2 As EnvDTE80.Process2 = dbg2.GetProcesses(trans, "JIMSMACHINE").Item("calc.exe")

              proc2.Attach2(dbgeng)

       Catch ex As System.Exception
              MsgBox(ex.Message)
       End Try

End Sub

Answer 2

I find it tiring and to the point that I do not. However, try using only your keyboard to open the website and connect to the process, for me this makes it much less tedious.

If I remember correctly for my environment ... Alt + F E (open website) Login Ctrl + Alt + P (Attach to process) D (to select the DLL node) Login Enter

Answer 3

The only way to debug classic ASP in VS2005 and VS2008 is to join the ASP workflow. However, you can automate this with a macro so that all tests are reduced to pressing a key combination. Here is a full working article on how to do this. It should work with any version of IIS.

http://blogs.msdn.com/greggm/archive/2006/03/15/552108.aspx