Best IDE

A list of CFML IDE's can be found at,

http://carehart.org/resourcelists/tools_to_consider/index.cfm#editcf

does anyone really use a design view with cfml pages??? any pages?

i love dw, and it is my main ide for cf development. but may i suggest
if you use dw to only use code view, especially with anything but basic
html pages (and even with those if you are serious and care about the
code you produce, be it even plain html).

just add .cfm and .cfc extensions to the list of files to be opened only
in code view under dw preferences -> file types/editors. you won't even
be able to switch to design view for those files then...

one and a 3/4 gripe i have with the cf8 dw extension (see Ken's post
above for url) is with the cf help that comes with it:
- the lack of attributes explanation in the Adobe CFML Reference help
section (1/2 gripe)
- total lack of anything useful in the Adobe CF Functions Reference help
section (1 gripe)
- typos in a couple of attribute names suggested by dw code hinting (1/4
gripe)

with so many new tags and functions added in cf8, this is a bit of a
bummer. cf7 extension was great - loved the help. no i have to open my
cfml reference pdf when i need to lookup a function syntax...


Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

There is an extension:

http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html

Using Eclipse with CFEclipse is fine, but you do lose the design view portion.

--
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver/ColdFusion
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com


"Dan Bracuk" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message news:g6vblk$49r$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I use DW8 and it has tag support for CF7. There is probably a CF8 extension you can get but until we upgrade, I wouldn't know for
>sure.

I use DW8 and it has tag support for CF7. There is probably a CF8 extension you can get but until we upgrade, I wouldn't know for sure.

cfcontractor wrote:
> OK, I have been writing CF code for almost nine years but my boss is moving our
> department to asp.net. I am trying to start up my own contractor company on
> the side and continue to do CF development. The latest version we have of CF
> is 7 but we aren't really doing anything with it. We have Dreamweaver MX and
> 8. But for me I am wondering if any version of Dreamweaver really gets me
> something that I couldn't get with Eclipse that is free.
>

I'm a moderate person. Both are fine IDEs some *love* Dreamweaver some
*love* Eclipse.

So if you like Eclipse and it does the job for you then you are not
missing anything by not using Dreamweaver.