Has Adobe stopped development on ASP.NET Server Behaviors for DW ?

> From a trusted source I heard that Adobe rather pushes PHP and CF
> development
> than ASP or ASP.NET server behaviors since their close relations over the
> years
> with Apple.

I don't see how Apple enters the equation.

ASP.net is MS technology. MS and Adobe are enemies. MS has made some very
nice and free IDEs for developing ASP.net

As such, there really isn't any viable business reason for Adobe to put time
and effort into supporting ASP.net. MS already does it better than they ever
could. As such, it makes perfect sense for them to support other
technologies. PHP because it is very popular, and CF, since they own it.

> under pressure
> of Apple? I mean the ties are very close.....

They likely aren't as close as you think. Apple competes with Adobe as much
as they partner with Adobe.

In the end, though, if you are serious about ASP.net yourself, then you
should really be using VS.net, as that's really how MS designed it all to
work together.

-Darrel

siegler wrote:
> From a trusted source I heard that Adobe rather pushes PHP and CF development
> than ASP or ASP.NET server behaviors since their close relations over the years
> with Apple.

Believe what or whom you like. Since Adobe's acquisition of Macromedia,
it owns CF, so it would be strange for a company not to promote its own
product. However, I see no evidence of PHP development being "pushed" in
favour of any other server-side technology.

> I mean I hardly seen any extensions being made available on the development of
> ASP.NET or .NET2.0

Adobe doesn't produce extensions. Third party developers do.

> I also see no books appear from any of the former MM developers about ASP.NET
> and application with Dreamweaver.

Publishers decide what they think the market is interested in. FWIW, my
publisher released three Dreamweaver 8 books - mine on PHP, another on
ASP, and a third on static website development. A deliberate decision
was taken not to do one on CF because sales of the MX 2004/CF book were
poor, in spite of being written by some highly respected names. I don't
know the background to the decision not to do one on ASP.NET, but I
suspect it's because my publisher was releasing a truckload of ASP.NET
2.0 books at the same time.

> Is Adobe trying to deliberately alienate themselves since they are owners of
> MM and distance themselves from ASP and or ASP.NET development under pressure
> of Apple? I mean the ties are very close.....
>
> Care to comment?

Unless it comes from an Adobe source, anything written here is pure
speculation.

--
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/