Compiling classic ASP files

Question

I've inherited a classic ASP application written in VBScript. I don't have experience with either. I am using Visual Studio 2013 as my development environment.

Please can you let me know whether it is possible to pre-compile ASP files? I just want to be able to view my compilation errors and ensure that the application compiles before running it.

When running the application I'm encountering run-time errors (HTTP status code 500) and I don't know whether this is because of compilation errors or some other reason.

Thanks,

Answer 1

As @Tim mentioned, Classic ASP code cannot be compiled. To view detailed code errors follow these steps.

1. Open IIS Manager
2. Click on "ASP"

3. Click "Debugging Properties" and Set the "Send Errors to Browser" option to "True".