Tools for writing asp

[DRH192]

Completely new to web programming although after reading my way through a few ASP scripts I can see it will be simple to pick up.

But can anyone tell me what tools exist for lazy people like me to write the code. I'm used to an Access VBA environment, does anything like this exist for programming asp?

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
Microsoft has several including Visual Studio and, if you want just VB, Visual Basic ( there are free versions of those on the MS site- somewhat limited in function but wil work fine)..

I just use a good text editor ( I like UltraEdit 32 )..





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[damber]

For lazy and rubbish programmers, there's always a wysiwyg editor like Dreamweaver or maybe even Frontpage....

I know that's harsh, but you'll soon have problems if you go that route.

The best balance is a tool that gives you advanced code formatting and editing (syntax highlighting, smart tabs/indentation etc) and gives you type-ahead type features (e.g. it gives you a list of methods for an object etc when your typing).

There are other beneficial features like debugging, refactoring support and other bits and bobs that may make your life a bit easier. Though these are nice-to-haves and can also be more of a hinderance than a help sometimes.

MS's Visual Web Developer Express will do a lot of this for you:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vwd/download

however..

If you are just starting to learn web development... why not use ASP.NET ? Classic ASP has a lot of limitations, and is a fairly outdated technology now (though still relatively commonly used, especially on older sites). And as you may know classic asp and asp.net are very different things..

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[kaht]

I'd suggest using textpad. Wizards and enhanced interfaces are nice for programming in a language that you know, but can cause VERY bad habits if you're just learning.

Learn to walk before you run, so they say.

-kaht

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[gbaughma]

I wrote ASP in Notepad for years...

Now I use Visual Web Developer 2005 (they took out ASP tag highlighting in versions after that... jerks... lol)



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