Adding a classic ASP webapplication to VS 2008

Question

is there a way to add an existing classic ASP webapp into a solution in VS? The application is around 4000 files large and currently maintained outisde Visual Studio.

Answer 1

You can't do this with Visual Studio 2008 out of the box, but you can if you install Service Pack 1 - see Scott Guthrie's blog post for more info.

Edit: To clarify, whilst you can create a project out of the box, there is no intellisense or debugging unless you install SP1

Answer 2

The best way to do this IMO is:-

In VS 2008 File | Open | Web Site...

In the dialog ensure File System is selected. Navigate to the physical folder that represents the root of your Web app.

Click Open. Job Done.

Answer 3

There's no real point though is there? As Classic ASP files aren't compiled. I keep just opening them individually as needed from File Explorer.

Although you could add them all to a VBProj or CSProj so you get them all showing up in your Solution Explorer, and could use features like Project -> Deploy.