Need to crawl .aspx pages

Hello,

I have recently installed the Beta version of the product for evaluation. I really like the product and the VisualStudio plugin is ideal for our rapid programming environment. I have one problem though. We are a .net shop that practices proprietary attribute based programming in asp.net pages. Basically we have a library of custom controls that receive attributes as parameters. Because of this, most of our code is contained within asp.net pages. Are there any plans to allow the kodebot to crawl .aspx pages? If not, is there a way to custom configure the bot to crawl these pages. If so I will likely buy the product.

Hey Jeff,

Thanks so much for testing out the product, and the feedback. It really is appreciated.

I moved your post from the Enterprise forum to here, as I assume it was meant to be posted to.

ASPX files are definitely on our minds. We are trying to solve the problem that this “class” of files represent. We have deemed this class “composite” to show the nature of files that can contain more then one structured language (some of which are not source code in the classical sense).

The issue of answering this question correctly is one we care greatly about, and hearing from you and others will help us make the decision as to which way to go.

ASPX can contain, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and any .Net language (with asp.net support). We currently do not index HTML or CSS as we do not consider them source code. Depending on user demand we may add support, which is what happened with XML (currently only supported in Pro Edition).

So the question is, how would you want to be able to search aspx files? Would you care that your results were muddied with terms from the surrounding html, css?

Our struggle has been in categorizing these types of composite files, but realize that in the end, users want to be able to search their code base for key words that stick out to them and find results. Our job is to provide an interface that helps you find that information as quickly as possible, and hence our careful consideration before adding any files that may detract from that goal.

Regardless of all this background, we will pick a direction and add support for aspx files within the next few releases. And we do not currently support a custom configuration to allow you to crawl and index certain pages.

Ben,

thanks for the response. For our purposes, everything can be “muddied” together and we’d prefer it that way. A developer may search for a past asp.net page by a known control name or id just so they can retrieve the name of the javascript include they included in that page. So separating them out would actually make this more difficult. Keeping everything together would be ideal.

Ben,

I forgot to ask. What is your release schedule? I’m trying to get an idea on timeframe of when this will be available.

Thanks,

Jeff

Hi Jeff,

While we can’t release the actual schedule, we can tell you that GA will be Fall of this year.

Mike

Mike,

just curious if the Fall release has come out or has been scheduled yet. Thanks in advance,

Jeff

The latest version of Koders Pro now indexes ASP.NET files by default. If you want to only search ASP.NET files such as aspx and ascx, then simply set the Language filter to “ASP.NET”. If there are other file types not as yet supported by Koders Pro, see the following post for instuctions on how to force Koders Pro to index them: http://www.koders.com/forums/forums/10/topics/66