How to find errors in code?

[Scott]

I'm coding in classic asp and can't figure how to get IE6 to display some
kind of descriptive message about code errors? I have the correct settings
under ADVANCED in IE's options selected.

What bugs me is sometimes IE will report the line number and a message, and
then other times it's the standard "The page can't be displayed."

When you have hundreds of lines of code, how can you fight this?

 

[Curt_C [MVP]]

I'm coding in classic asp and can't figure how to get IE6 to display some
kind of descriptive message about code errors? I have the correct settings
under ADVANCED in IE's options selected.

What bugs me is sometimes IE will report the line number and a message, and
then other times it's the standard "The page can't be displayed."

When you have hundreds of lines of code, how can you fight this?

make sure IE is set to show them as well, beyond that look at things
like OPTION EXPLICIT. Check out www.aspfaq.com for hints but in general
its not all that easy... sadly....

 

[PJones]

one way
http://powerasp.com/content/new/on-error-resume-next.asp

 

[Jeff Cochran]

I'm coding in classic asp and can't figure how to get IE6 to display some
kind of descriptive message about code errors? I have the correct settings
under ADVANCED in IE's options selected.

What bugs me is sometimes IE will report the line number and a message, and
then other times it's the standard "The page can't be displayed."

When you have hundreds of lines of code, how can you fight this?

Well, sometimes there isn't a line with an error. You can do
rudimentary error trapping, but testing discrete blocks of code is the
only way to track down some coding errors. Use liberal
Response.Writes to say "Got here in the code" as well.

Jeff