How do you troubleshoot a classic ASP page when it crashes with the following error message? Turn Off Page Buffering By default, page buffering in ASP is set to On so one way to do it is just to turn off the page buffering. At the top of your ASP page, add the following line after the VBScript declaration (Line 2 - highlighted): In general though, you do want to pose a limit so … [Read more...]
How to Make Visual Studio Code Colorize Classic ASP Code
If you still have to do development with Classic ASP or VBScript and you want to use Visual Studio Code, you'll soon find out that even though the code editor was built by Microsoft, there's no language colorization support for ASP code by default. Fortunately, adding the feature can be done easily using Extensions. So here are the steps to do so: Launch Visual Studio Code and click on Go and … [Read more...]
How to Fix Invalid SendUsing Configuration using CDO
When you use CDOsys to send email from a classic ASP, you might see an error message below and if you look at the line error, it's always on the message.Send: Several posts would suggest that you put the SMTP server in the code. But when you already have an SMTP server setup on IIS 6.0, here's a couple things you might want to check as well: Check if the Application Pool is at least … [Read more...]
How to Fix Permission Denied Error 800a0046
If you still use CDONTS object in your ASP page and run into this kind of error: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a0046' Permission denied /path/filename.asp, line 4 Then when you open the file, you see something like this. Just by reading the error message, you can probably guess that this error occurs usually because the anonymous user account is not granted a Modify … [Read more...]
How to Replace CDONTS with CDOSYS on Classic ASP Pages
Replacing CDONTS with CDOSYS, while can be time consuming for a large classic ASP application, is actually very easy to do. Here's a simple example of what need to be changed at a minimum: Set oCDOMail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail") to:Set oCDOMail = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message") Remove BodyFormat property, oCDOMail.BodyFormat = 0 since it's unnecessary. Replace MailFormat … [Read more...]