CFM Visual Studio - like Editor Exist?

Report · Sep 13, 2006

We're using ColdFusion 6 on our server. The code in production is quite old and these days we're using ASP.NET. Now I've been tasked with updating the ColdFusion .CFM file containing a fairly basic looking input form. The problem Im having is the CFM file is very difficult to analyse as it contains numerous include statements and seems to be accessing the database for metadata to build the form dynbamically. Editing this simple form seems quite daunting.

Can someone recommend a visual studio tool which can make visuallizing and editing all of this easier? Im not a ColdFusion develoiper and so am not clear if the CFM code was dynmaically generated or manually created in house. The CFM code is so broken down into reusuable parts that its manageability is nearly impossible. It seems almost computer generated. I havent read up on ColdFusion Studio if its still available but would this make this kind of CFM management easier?

Thanks.

Report · Sep 13, 2006

CF Studio has pretty much been replaced by Dreamweaver.

It won't show you the links between all the components like VS will, but it will help organize the code and make things easier to view.

Report · Sep 13, 2006

>>The
CFM code is so broken down into reusuable parts that its manageability is
nearly impossible.

This may sound a little silly, but seeing as you say you are not a CF person
I should say this:

Do you realise that CF code is made of tags that encapsulate the
functionlaity? You are not trying to look for the code behind, say, <cffile
... > ? In other words, I hope you are not treating actual tags as though
they were produced by the developer, as opposed to be a core part of the
language. I say this as I have seen somebody do this before!

Anyhoo, dreamweaver will be of no real use to you above and beyond what you
could do in VS. Its a hopeless editor for server side, its a web designers
tool. Though I guess you could get the DW 30 day trial (if you don't already
have DW) and see if the CFC browser can help you visualise methods and
objects but, so far as I can tell, you are not going to get the tools like
"go to definition" that exist in VS.

"bs9999" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> We're using ColdFusion 6 on our server. The code in production is quite
> old
> and these days we're using ASP.NET. Now I've been tasked with updating
> the
> ColdFusion .CFM file containing a fairly basic looking input form. The
> problem
> Im having is the CFM file is very difficult to analyse as it contains
> numerous
> include statements and seems to be accessing the database for metadata to
> build
> the form dynbamically. Editing this simple form seems quite daunting.
>
> Can someone recommend a visual studio tool which can make visuallizing and
> editing all of this easier? Im not a ColdFusion develoiper and so am not
> clear
> if the CFM code was dynmaically generated or manually created in house.
> The
> CFM code is so broken down into reusuable parts that its manageability is
> nearly impossible. It seems almost computer generated. I havent read up
> on
> ColdFusion Studio if its still available but would this make this kind of
> CFM
> management easier?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>