What editors and tools do you use to develop in Classic ASP. I am currently use TextPad but its not great so I am looking for alternatives.
The problems that i am having with TextPad is that it seems to try to do syntax highlighting but it gets messed up which makes it hard to read. I feel like using a better tool could be more productive.
In 2000 (the only time I used it) I used Dreamweaver (I think it was version 4).
Some tools I've used:
Visual Studio (both for fee and free versions) works really nicely. Intellisense is a big plus. However any text editor that has code highlighting built in for asp all you really need.
I think you should get extra votes if you start using WinVI
Expression Web from Microsoft seems to get the job done. Although I'm not using it to write classic asp, sometimes when I open up .asp files, highlighting seems to be in place. (and it's a great html editor anyway IMO)
VIM is great because you don't have to be on a Windows box to use it. If I'm looking for something easy to introduce somebody to I usually go with the free Komodo Edit.
Back in the days I used Homesite http://www.adobe.com/products/homesite/
Allaire HomeSite used to be really good, until it got bought by Macromedia, which then got bought by Adobe. The code editing features got somewhat merged into Dreamweaver which is 10x slower, and although Adobe still sells HomeSite, it doesn't appear to be an actively developed product anymore. There haven't been any updates in a very long time. It's also a little buggy and crashes quite often (probably due to the fact that it hasn't been updated in ages).
Also tried WeBuilder 2008 briefly, but also found it to be quite buggy and crashed frequently, though it's got a good set of features and feels like a newer and better version of Homesite.
I've used Ultra-Edit in the past, which has lots of useful features and worked fairly well, and Notepad2 is also a good free application, though it seems better suited to quick changes rather than a full-blown IDE for Classic ASP development.
Visual Web Developer Express - Free download from Microsoft.
Emacs and vi are always good too.
We used Visual Interdev as our ASP 3.0 development environment. It had debugging capabilities and code completion however that was around 5 years ago so I expect there are better options available now.
I haven't been able to find a good editor (highlighting, collapsing, completion) for ASP, really.
When you open an ASP document, Notepad++ allows you to collapse functions and script blocks, but not HTML elements, even if you set the Language to HTML! (When you open a .htm file in Notepad++, it does allow you to collapse those elements though.)
The VS 2008 text editor is the other way around - HTML elements are fair game but not ASP code itself.
Visual Studio 2008 for me, used to use Ultra Edit but as soon as I got 2008 i stopped using it.
I use EditPlus (www.editplus.com) very simple with color and tab coding and very good search and replace functionality including regular expressions.