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JJA
I am really confused about how "regular, old, classic" .ASP files
written with server side VBScript code are supported in the new
environment of .Net running on Windows Server 2003.

I am trying to get a large site of .ASP files running without
conversion to ASP.Net user controls and in general, minimal
modification.

I was making some progress and I thought I understood that ASP was
supported within the new environment. Then I got:

VBScript runtime error '800a0005'
Invalid procedure call or argument 'Left'

This fails on an assignment statement that uses the VBScript Left
function. Then I found some notes somewhere that describes how Left
and many other functions are "not supported" and have VB.Net
equivalents.

So I am confused. Previous guidance suggested I could run .ASP files
with VBScript in .NET. I took this to mean that VBScript would behave
like it does under IIS 4.0 (for example, run time interpreted code,
etc.)

Now it is starting to dawn on me that even though it looks like
VBScript and resides within a file whose extension is .ASP not .ASPX,
it is not really VBScript but rather VB.Net. I am deducing this
because the Left function is disallowed.

In short, is there any way to postpone all the wonders of ASP.Net and
VB.Net and get an ASP-based site written in VBScript to work without
conversion (in this case, the Left function but I know I'll run into
more things like this as I continue testing).
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SStory
Hmm... Does the site have the appropriate ASP ISAPI filter and set to treat
ASP as ASP files?

I was also under the understanding that you could do either.
my first guess is that the ASP file my be being treated as ASP.NET or
something I don't know.... Must be something like that. what you want is
that the old ASP interpreter/parser or whatever is doing the decoding and
not .NET.

I don't know if it isn't something like this.

Shane

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