I have an old legacy ASP application that I need to make some changes to. I have been using the Eclipse IDE from www.eclipse.org for development work and am now looking for an editor plug-in for Eclipse that can handle syntax highlighting and hopefully debugging for ASP code.Is there such an Eclipse plug-in available?
I have an old legacy ASP application that I need to make some changes to. I have been using the Eclipse IDE for development work and am now looking for an editor plug-in for Eclipse that can handle syntax highlighting and hopefully debugging for ASP code.Is there such an Eclipse plug-in available?
I am not aware of an Eclipse plug-in that will provide integration with the Eclipse debugging subsystem, but there is one that provides syntax highlighting and ASP editing support. The plug-in is called the Eclipse Colorer. You can add it to your Eclipse installation by downloading the zip file package from the sourceforge site and unpacking it into your Eclipse plug-ins directory, or you can use the Eclipse Update Manager from the Eclipse Help menu to install it for you. Go to the colorer update site. Colorer is a syntax-highlighting and text-parsing library that supports a large number of programming languages. In addition to the Eclipse plug-in, the distribution provides syntax-highlighting tools for the FAR Manager file and archive manager for Windows and the Linux Midnight Commander. When used with Eclipse for editing ASP code, the Eclipse plug-in provides Eclipse Outline View integration features, automatic code indenting and syntax error marking. Despite the lack of debugger support, the colorer plug-in makes Eclipse a solid editing environment for ASP code and almost any other well-known programming language. I recommend it for those looking to bring all of their coding work into the Eclipse environment.
