Is there a way to have intellisense working for classic-asp custom classes in VS 2008 ?

Question

First, this has never worked before, so it is not specifically related to VS 2008. The problem : when you have custom asp classes in separate files that you include in a "main" asp script, you won't get intellisense in Visual Studio.

Example : CUser.asp

<%
Class CUser
   Public Sub Create()
   Public Sub Remove()
End Class
%>

Main.asp :

<!--#include file="CUser.asp"-->
<%
Dim user : Set user = new CUser
user.Create
%>

You don't get any Intellisense when you type "user.". If I do the same INSIDE CUser.asp, after the "End Class" statement, then it works.

Do you know any way to make this work consistently in all asp files ?

Idea : I thought of maybe generating a custom "intellisense file" that I could feed to Visual Studio with all the symbols and comments for my functions, subs, etc... but didn't find too much information about this topic. Any leads here ?

Answer 1

Unfortunately it is not possible.

Answer 2

The lack of "real compiled" classes in ASP Classic was one of the major reasons for me to switch to ASP.NET long ago... sorry to tell you that. If you like classes and objects I would strongly recommend you to do a "language switch" of the big ones. :o)

I've also switched from VBscript to C# as I did some C/C++ before we got ASP.

But my major reason for deciding c# instead of VB.net is that most hardcore examples seems to be written in c#, secondly the switch between javascript (clientside) and c# (serverside) is pretty usefull when you are busy.

Lastly, Flash/Actionscript 3.0 is becomming more and more objectoriented too and this also builds on the ECMA standards for scripts.

Sorry for all this OT text, but I think you might be ready for the "big switch" :o)

Regards