Dreamweaver and ASP.net

[venerable bede]

Does anyone know of any tutorials aimed at hand coding using MX.

I understand that MX uses its own dll and am looking for some examples of the syntax for creating datasets e.t.c.

Thanks in Advance

[Redth]

well, dreamweaver MX is very nice for designing layouts wysiwyg style.. but that's all it's useful for...

i faithfully tried using it, and eventually got fed up and went to vs.net for several reasons:

1) Dreamweaver MX doesn't do codebehind... this is ok i suppose, but M$ is really pushing this codebehind coding style, and it is more practical, i must agree..

2) Dreamweaver MX doesn't do intellisense to the degree that vs.net does it... it's quite handy when trying to write those little functions and stuff when vs.net tells you the class's members, and what those members require for parameters, etc... i love this feature of vs.net... wouldn't want to live without it...

3) Dreamweaver MX doesn't auto capitalize and stuff on variables and syntax... i know this encourages laziness, but i'm down with that.


so, dreamweaver kinda sucks in the big picture.. the only things i admire of it are it's really good wysiwyg editting capabilities and its ability to not touch my precious code... the other thing is its files view thing and sites... i like being able to click a file from there and 'put' it to the server.. very handy...

lastly i like the templates in dreamweaver... now, i've kinda done my own template idea in vs.net by just using webcontrols, and perhaps webcontrols are more effective in the long run.. also, the templates in dreamweaver can go screwy sometimes and not let you change certain code...

so the verdict is... if you can't live without the wysiwyg html editting, go dreamweaver and be burdened with the curse of no intellisense for asp.net code! or, just stick it out, do what you can in dreamweaver for layouts and paste it into vs.net, and work by hand from there.. and then you will have the luxury of all the stuff vs.net does for you... very nice...

[douort]

Here's the link to the Dreamweaver resources page-

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/dreamweaver/

There are several tutorials on using Dreamweaver for ASP development.