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Joe Fawcett - 25 Jan 2006 09:13 GMT

I recently moved from VS .Net 2003 to 2005.
In 2003 I could edit .asp files and colour coding and Intellisense was
provided, now it no longer is. Can anyone tell me how to get it working
again?

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"Gary Chang[MSFT]" - 26 Jan 2006 03:44 GMT

Hi Joe,

>In 2003 I could edit .asp files and colour coding and Intellisense
>was provided, now it no longer is.

The VS2005 still provides intellisence for ASP file, but there is some
difference from VS2003.

Firstly, you may need to explicitly set default server scripting language
in VS2005, VS2003 assumed it was VBScript, but VS2005 wants explicit
declaration. You can use document properties window to specify it.

Secondly, <% %> would be yellow and script code be colorized mostly as it
was in VS2003. The only difference is that VS2005 no
longer colorize the entire <% %> block in yellow.

Thanks!

Best regards,

Gary Chang
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Joe Fawcett - 26 Jan 2006 08:42 GMT

Gary
Thanks for that, but the properties window is blank. I also tried adding <%@
LANGUAGE="VBScript" %> to the top of the page but that didn't work.

Steps:
Open VS
Create new blank solution
Add existing item: <myasppage.asp>
Open properties window.

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