ASP Development Tools

ASP Express

If you're looking for a great ASP/HTML code editor, check out ASP Express. ASP Express allows you the extreme flexibility of an HTML text editor, while giving you the automation of a great ASP text editor. Just a few of its features include:

  • ADO Connection Assistant
  • SQL Builder Assistant
  • CDO Asstant
  • Global ASA Template creation
  • Make any HTML tag phrase 'Response.Write' - ready

Active Page Generator

Now at version 2.1, "Active Page Generator™ (APGen™) makes it easy to improve web site performance, reliability, user experience, and maintenance while reducing costs."

GNU Emacs

Let the holy wars rage. At version 19 or something, this editor duals with VI for supremacy on UNIX/Linux platforms. Requires quite a bit of study, but its macro language is exceedinly powerful. And the price is right.

Microsoft Frontpage 2000

For small sites, Frontpage offers an easy to use development environment, although you will have to manage Frontpage server extensions on anything but an IIS webserver.

Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Including Visual InterDev

Until Visual Studio.NET is final, the most industrial strength environment you can use to develop your ASP applications is Visual InterDev 6.0.

Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4

From the Macromedia Web site: "Macromedia Dreamweaver UltraDev 4, with all the powerful new features of Dreamweaver 4, is the most efficient way to develop ASP, JSP, or ColdFusion applications. View code and design simultaneously. Easily create libraries of server-side scripts or use the built-in server behaviors and shortcuts."

Windows Notepad

When you don't want anything else to come between you and your "<%"s...

Vi

Love it or hate it, if you're on UNIX/Linux Vi is a useful and ubiquitous text editor. The link above is to "VI Improved" which adds, "...many of the features that you would expect in an editor: Unlimited undo, syntax coloring, split windows, visual selection, graphical user interface (read: menus, mouse control, scrollbars, text selection), and much much more." And it's also free...


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