Dreamweaver and ASP.net

[venerable bede]

I am developing an asp.net application using Dreamweaver MX and am having a few problems.

I just seem to be developing the application using the same methods and approach I always used with classic ASP. I am not really taking advantage of the new functionality that ASP.net offers. This is partly due to the fact that MX only offers a certain amount of support for .net and because there are very few resources out there for developers using this tool for ASP.net.

Does anyone know of any good resources for MX and ASP.net? It doesnt matter if they are links or books or whatever.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance

[Lord_Rat]

http://www.asp.net

There is a program called WebMatrix.

I recommend that you lay out your forms using DreamWeaver, then open those forms in WebMatrix to do your coding. It's free, but it has some really nice ASP.Net features.

[Redth]

actually, i was looking into this the other night... it seems that vs.net's asp.net development is perfect, except for one part... the form (page) design... that aspect of vs.net ide just sucks!!!

I love using dreamweaver MX for the design of pages, and templates, but for writing asp.net code, it isn't ideal... it doesn't do the codebehind quite as nicely, and furthermore, the intellisense is not nearly as good as vs.net's is... actually, if Dreamweaver's intellisense was equal to vs.net's, and codebehind was easier to work with, dreamweaver would be perfect...


but it's not...

i haven't tried using dreamweaver and vs.net hand in hand yet... i'm wondering if anyone has any tips, and if dreamweaver and templates work well with vs.net, and any difficulties you've encountered. the only problem i foresee is that dreamweaver's templates are quite strict, and i wouldn't put it past vs.net to muck that all up...

[Redth]

oh, btw, asp.net web matrix is nice, but umm, it doesn't do intellisense and like case auto-correction and auto-indentation and stuff like vs.net does... or am i just missing something?

[Musician]

I worked with dreamweaver for a while. I created a template code behind page based on what vs.net gives me but I'm back on vs.net again. I've always been a hard bitten coder anyway so any nice Dreamweaver wysiwyg facilities are wasted on me.
Also vs.net compiles it for you and I want to have a pre-compiled site. As for vs.net's form designer. I don't use it. I go to the html and write tables to arrange my controls on the page the way I want. I find positioning very bad for browser compatability.