Question: I just downloaded Notepad++ because I need to work on a classic asp project. I'm a complete beginner with classic asp, and have been spoiled with asp.net and visual studio. I noticed Notepad++ has debug points you can place beside the line numbers. Is there a way I can step through asp script code using those?

If not what is the best / easiest way to debug asp classic scripts? 

Thanks

Answer: 
Well if you have a copy of Visual Studio then the best way to debug (and code) an ASP Classic project is to use Visual Studio.

If you don't have Visual Studio then carry on editing in Notepad++ but use Windows Script Debugger (free download from MS) to perform debugging. You can attach to process running your ASP code and place break points in the script debugger. Alternatively place `Stop` commands in your VBScript code (or `debugger` if you are using JScript) and then choose Script Debugger from the available debuggers list.

Note you need to tweak the application configuration properties in IIS for the ASP application to allow debugging.
Response.write is the way most devs did it back in the day. I actually made "cout" and "dout" functions . . . cout was just Response.write but dout checked to see if I was logged in and then wrote out a new line and then the value that's passed in.