[program-l] Re: Editing classic ASP pages
- From: Soronel Haetir <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:12:52 -0900
Which explains why cobol and fortran programmers still have jobs.
On 1/31/12, Littlefield, Tyler <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Katherine:
> There's something you're not understanding.
>
> If a company writes a huge system in asm 10 years ago, and the
> higher-ups that don't care about the new technologies and can barely
> find the power button on their own computer want something done, this
> means that, yes, you guessed it! The coder is going to have to know asm.
> It costs to much money to rewrite something every time a new technology
> comes out, so people use what is there as long as it's not horribly
> broken (and even then still use it sometimes) and just keep working with
> it. Asp.net does exist, but it would probably cost much much more to
> rewrite the whole website using asp.net, and it wouldn't even really matter.
>
> From his post, it sounds like Jacob is getting a job/paid/something to
> do this.
> On 1/30/2012 11:09 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
>>
>> Arachnophilia's not going to give you ASP support. The only one I can
>> think of is MS FrontPage 2003, or notepad or EdSharp or something like
>> that. But why such an old technology when ASP.net is using higher
>> languages?
>>
>> *From:*program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Jacob Kruger
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 31, 2012 1:03 AM
>> *To:* Program-l
>> *Subject:* [program-l] Editing classic ASP pages
>>
>> Ok, might shortly be reverting back to some old-style classic ASP code
>> work, and while have managed to get IIS 7.0 on my windows7 64 bit
>> machine to implement what seems like classic ASP support - was
>> actually quite easy - "turn windows features on and off" from start
>> menu search box, find internet information service there, , open it,
>> and look under it for the following parts of the tree structure:
>>
>> World Wide Web Services
>> Application Development Features
>> ASP
>> ASP.NET
>>
>> Then just make sure both of the last two are checked/turned on, tab
>> over to Ok button, hit space bar, and wait for it to finish off
>> updating windows setup, restart machine, and now just tested simple
>> test.asp page to make sure it is interpreting the underlying VBScript,
>> and seemed alright thus far.
>>
>> Anyway, just wondering what off-hand you guys would reckon is best
>> sort of markup/source code editor for classic ASP, since VS.Net 2008
>> doesn't like/support it, so might just end up sticking to edSharp, or
>> might, actually get around to looking into something like
>> arachnophilia as such, but just thought may as well ask in any case..?
>>
>> Stay well
>>
>>
>> Jacob Kruger
>> Blind Biker
>> Skype: BlindZA
>> '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
>>
>
>
> --
>
> Take care,
> Ty
> Web: http://tds-solutions.net
> The Aspen project: a light-weight barebones mud engine
> http://code.google.com/p/aspenmud
>
> Sent from my toaster.
>
>
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