Is there a good ASP web dev IDE?

[aceO07]

I've always used notepad to do simple web applications in ASP. I actually don't know much about ASP, except simple database function and writing text out. I did a very simple web application page 5 years back using an access database.

Currently I may need to do something with it again and was hoping to find a decent IDE. That way it'd make the process faster, I hope, and also I hope that it has code assist features so I can learn some new things.

I'm not interested in learning a new scripting language. I know ASP enough to do what I need, sorta. I don't have all the free time to learn something new. So, an ASP IDE would be great for me if any exists.

 

[tfinch2]

Visual Studio?

 

[aceO07]

Thanks. Unfortunately, I don't want to pay for it. Is there a free IDE? Or something with a trial period?

 

[tfinch2]

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

 

[aceO07]

Awesome. Thanks a lot. I'll take a closer look when I get home.

 

[aceO07]

It seems to be only for ASP.NET. I was interested in ASP classic. Can ASP.NET run under IIS and it is very very similar to ASP classic?

 

[BigPete]

asp.net does run under IIS, of course, that's the only way to get it work, otherwise how would the code be processed by the server? I am no expert but I do believe that asp classic and asp.net are quite different. ASP classic was more like a scripting language ASP.NET is more of an actual programming language since you actually use embedded VB or C# or something along those lines. Maybe someone else can be a bit more clear about this.

 

[Jaxidian]

ASP.NET requires IIS and the .NET framework to be installed. It's very different than classic ASP, though. However, I believe you can develop classic ASP under Visual Studio (at least you can with the full version, never used the Express version before). Give it a try!