Having upgraded from VS 2005 Express to VS 2008, I was surprised to find that ASP highlighting and Intellisense didn’t work – it treated the code as plain text. A classic Microsoft decision, to desupport something they’re already committed to supporting.

A bit of digging around though, and I worked out two things. One, M$ intended to completely desupport Classic ASP. Which would be fine, except that…

…by the time Visual Studio Express 2008 Service Pack 1 came out (which it hasn’t yet), they’re already backtracking, claiming it wasn’t desupported, just not working – but will be fixed in SP1.

And people wonder why Gates never ran for president? Seems that liars never prosper – as Hillary Clinton (someone I used to hope would be in charge that side of the pond) seems to be finding out.

Tags: Microsoft, Visual Studio, web

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