Visual studio or other development tools still exist?

[CB]

I know it's a bit like drawing on a cave wall with a charred stick, but I
have ASP web applications in production. I use Visual Studio 6 and Windows
Server 2000 as a local development platform to maintain and extend them. I
was needing to get a new computer, and wondered:

Do newer versions of Visual Studio even handle vbscript and plain old ASP
anymore?

I am not sure if my old Visual Studio 6 would even install on a newer
operating system now available, even if the nine-year-old CD is still
readable. Do any ASP development/authoring tools still exist that can be
used on new machines?

 

[Anthony Jones]

I know it's a bit like drawing on a cave wall with a charred stick, but I
have ASP web applications in production. I use Visual Studio 6 and Windows
Server 2000 as a local development platform to maintain and extend them. I
was needing to get a new computer, and wondered:

Do newer versions of Visual Studio even handle vbscript and plain old ASP
anymore?

I am not sure if my old Visual Studio 6 would even install on a newer
operating system now available, even if the nine-year-old CD is still
readable. Do any ASP development/authoring tools still exist that can be
used on new machines?

VS2005 and 2008 still support ASP and VBScript coding. VS 6 will install
fine on Windows 2003 server or XP SP2, I've not tried it on Vista but I
can't think why it wouldn't work.

If you production asp apps are running in IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0 I would
recommend you use XP or 2003 server as an OS, Vista comes with IIS7 and
whilst that should still run ASP fine it does takes you some distance away
from what your production servers are actually using.