A few questions come up in the forums @ http://forums.iis.net about people moving Classic ASP applications that use CDONTS. CDONTS was introduced in NT4 and was widely popular. With the success of ASP applications 'back in the day', many used CDONTS to send emails from their application. Windows Server...

A few questions come up in the forums @ http://forums.iis.net about people moving Classic ASP applications that use CDONTS. CDONTS was introduced in NT4 and was widely popular. With the success of ASP applications 'back in the day', many used CDONTS to Read More......( read more )

There are two settings you should be aware of for hosting that relate to delegation of errors. 1. Delegating ASP's scriptErrorSentToBrowser setting: You should definitely turn on the ASP script errors, otherwise your customers won't see the useful errors from Classic ASP that IIS 6.0 showed. What your...

There are two settings you should be aware of for hosting that relate to delegation of errors. 1. Delegating ASP's scriptErrorSentToBrowser setting: You should definitely turn on the ASP script errors, otherwise your customers won't see the useful errors from Classic ASP that IIS 6.0 showed....

Custom Errors on IIS 7.0 and Classic ASP. In previous versions of IIS, there was a built-in error page called 500-100.asp. In IIS 7.0, this custom error page is not automatically listed. Here is a quick demo how I setup a couple ways to capture errors with custom errors. I tried this both with a Classic...

Custom Errors on IIS 7.0 and Classic ASP. In previous versions of IIS, there was a built-in error page called 500-100.asp. In IIS 7.0, this custom error page is not automatically listed. Here is a quick demo how I setup a couple ways to capture errors Read More......( read more )

I have found that a classic ASP application that worked just fine on IIS 5.0 and IIS 6.0 may have some problems in IIS 7.0 if it is making use of the Session_OnEnd function in Global.asa. Here is the set up, I have a very simple global.asa file which increments SessionCount in Session_OnStart and decrements...