Creating Project from existing site

Hi all,

I'm running into some trouble figuring out how to create a 'project'
from an existing asp application.

The ASP app was written entirely with plain text editors. I would
like to set up debugging for it, but it seems that in order to debug,
I must have a 'project'.

I cannot figure out how one might go about this task. The project is
rather large (180K lines, and a few hundred files in many different
sub-dirs), and I have been playing & researching for about 4 hours
now, and I can't figure it out.

Can anyone make a suggestion as to what I must do to get something
going (preferably vs2003, but I have VID also)

Thanks so much

Brian Ackermann

Re: Creating Project from existing site

brian.ackermann wrote on 04 apr 2007 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm running into some trouble figuring out how to create a 'project'
> from an existing asp application.
>
> The ASP app was written entirely with plain text editors. I would
> like to set up debugging for it, but it seems that in order to debug,
> I must have a 'project'.

No. Debugging should be in essence a manual and conseptual tast.

First yopu sgould knoew what the code should do.

Then test what fails.

Then insert brakpoints where you suspect that origins of the errors an
be:

response.write "breakpoint 1: value: " & supiciousValuedVariable
response.end

remarking them as you go on:

'response.write "breakpoint 2: value: " & OtherSupiciousValuedVariable
'response.end

> I cannot figure out how one might go about this task. The project is
> rather large (180K lines, and a few hundred files in many different
> sub-dirs), and I have been playing & researching for about 4 hours
> now, and I can't figure it out.

4 hours is nothing. Think months.

Somtimes, if the code is badly written, it pays off to rebuild from
scratch.

> Can anyone make a suggestion as to what I must do to get something
> going (preferably vs2003, but I have VID also)

Bad choices if you use tham for debugging code you do not understand.

I do not think those will speed you up, unless you are proficient in the
above debugging by hand.

Undoubtedly others will queue up to prove me wrong ;-)

--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

Re: Creating Project from existing site

"brian.ackermann" wrote in message
news:1175700079.817718.118370@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com.. .
> Hi all,
>
> I'm running into some trouble figuring out how to create a 'project'
> from an existing asp application.
>
> The ASP app was written entirely with plain text editors. I would
> like to set up debugging for it, but it seems that in order to debug,
> I must have a 'project'.

A project is not required.

All that is needed is debugging enviroment such Script Debugger or vs2003 on
the server where the ASP runs and enable debugging in the application
configuration.

To place break points just enter the Stop keyword (or debugger if you using
JScript) in the ASP file.

Of course you wouldn't want to do this in a production environment.

>
> I cannot figure out how one might go about this task. The project is
> rather large (180K lines, and a few hundred files in many different
> sub-dirs), and I have been playing & researching for about 4 hours
> now, and I can't figure it out.
>
> Can anyone make a suggestion as to what I must do to get something
> going (preferably vs2003, but I have VID also)

Both require considerable trial and error to set up (esp if your app is the
root of a site).
If all you want to do is debug don't bother.


>
> Thanks so much
>
> Brian Ackermann
>