ASP without paying?

[AFB]

My school runs ASP for their site, well they have a test server, but it runs Apache. Is there any IDE or something that can check the code?

 

[WannaFly]

what exactly do you mean?

 

[Drakkon]

you mean like a asp parser?
Theres a lot of projects out there but none comes close to the true parser thats in IIS
example : http://www.apache-asp.org/

 

[Cheetah8799]

Technically you can run ASP through Apache, but if the site uses any special functions there may be issues. Give it a try. Do some google searches and you should be able to get it to work without much effort.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
you mean like a asp parser?
Theres a lot of projects out there but none comes close to the true parser thats in IIS
example : http://www.apache-asp.org/

From looking at that, it looks like it runs Perl code in ASP braces. 😕 I'm really looking at something like an IDE where you can click run and it shows you what it would look like in the browser.

 

[WannaFly]

Why not try Visual Basic or c3 express editions? Visual Studio would definately do that, also theres a free one but i dont remember what it is

 

[cchen]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: Drakkon
you mean like a asp parser?
Theres a lot of projects out there but none comes close to the true parser thats in IIS
example : http://www.apache-asp.org/

From looking at that, it looks like it runs Perl code in ASP braces. 😕 I'm really looking at something like an IDE where you can click run and it shows you what it would look like in the browser.

you can do that in frontpage

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: Drakkon
you mean like a asp parser?
Theres a lot of projects out there but none comes close to the true parser thats in IIS
example : http://www.apache-asp.org/

From looking at that, it looks like it runs Perl code in ASP braces. 😕 I'm really looking at something like an IDE where you can click run and it shows you what it would look like in the browser.

you can do that in frontpage

You mean it will parse the ASP first?

 

[Nothinman]

I'm really looking at something like an IDE where you can click run and it shows you what it would look like in the browser.

What's wrong with keeping a browser window open and just hitting refresh?

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

I'm really looking at something like an IDE where you can click run and it shows you what it would look like in the browser.

What's wrong with keeping a browser window open and just hitting refresh?

Well, we don't have ASP on the server so ....

 

[Nothinman]

Well, we don't have ASP on the server so ....

It's not like there's anything stopping you from installing a web server locally to develop on, right?

 

[cchen]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Well, we don't have ASP on the server so ....

It's not like there's anything stopping you from installing a web server locally to develop on, right?

Yeap. Run IIS on your own computer

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Well, we don't have ASP on the server so ....

It's not like there's anything stopping you from installing a web server locally to develop on, right?

Yeap. Run IIS on your own computer

Good point. So ASP comes with IIS or do I need to install something else?

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: cchen

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Well, we don't have ASP on the server so ....

It's not like there's anything stopping you from installing a web server locally to develop on, right?

Yeap. Run IIS on your own computer

Good point. So ASP comes with IIS or do I need to install something else?

The ASP parsing engine is built into IIS.

 

[Nothinman]

Well I personally wouldn't recommend IIS, but if you need ASP you really don't have much of a choice.

 

[phillydog]

Not sure if this has been considered, but I would suggest to use JSP rather than ASP. JSP will run on almost any webserver (if not all of them). I thought ASP is proprietary to IIS, which is why I never learned to program in it.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: phillydog
Not sure if this has been considered, but I would suggest to use JSP rather than ASP. JSP will run on almost any webserver (if not all of them). I thought ASP is proprietary to IIS, which is why I never learned to program in it.

Just my 2 cents.

It would be PHP if it was my choice. But like I said, I'm a student and don't make those choices. My teacher was just wondering how she could do ASP without having a dedcated server.

 

[torpid]

There aren't any development tools I know of that will show you your page as it will look in a browser after the script is executed... the closest approximation is if you have IIS or IIS-lite (whatever the non-server version is called now) you can "preview" it by viewing the final product in a browser.

 

[imported_Tomato]

This might be too much for your school, but it's good software and I think they offer educational discounts.

 

[Genx87]

I used notepad and IIS on my Win2K box when i did .asp

Eventually I did get a copy of visual studio 6 which made looking at the code easier. But texpad is also a nice text editing application that will do the same thing.

But if all you want is a preview the best way to do it is to get an IIS server up and just hit refresh after you change the code.

 

[oboeguy]

Originally posted by: Genx87
I used notepad and IIS on my Win2K box when i did .asp

Eventually I did get a copy of visual studio 6 which made looking at the code easier. But texpad is also a nice text editing application that will do the same thing.

But if all you want is a preview the best way to do it is to get an IIS server up and just hit refresh after you change the code.

Notepad? Yikes! Install emacs for Windows or Cygwin and run emacs through it. Much better than Notepad!

Agreed on the server thing -- when I was working with ASP a few years ago (3?) I always ran a local IIS server.

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: phillydog
Not sure if this has been considered, but I would suggest to use JSP rather than ASP. JSP will run on almost any webserver (if not all of them). I thought ASP is proprietary to IIS, which is why I never learned to program in it.<BR><BR>Just my 2 cents.

Where did you get that crazy idea? JSP will run on webservers that are written in java and no others. Unless there's something like an isapi plugin for java, but I've never heard of one. If you're not looking to pay license fees that basically only leaves you with tomcat (or maybe jetty). amdfanboy's got the right idea wanting to use php. That'd probably be best for lightweight, server-non-specific development.