Dreamweaver vs. Visual Studio

> At any rate, I have come to learn that many folks who utilize asp.net work
> primarily (or even exclusively) in MS Visual Studio.

Yep.

> Do you think I need to invest
> in Visual Studio or do you think I can accomplish what I need to using
> Dreamweaver?

If you are going to do ASP.net stuff seriously, and there's ANY possibility
you will be working with others on the same code, then you really need to
bite the bullet and embrace VS.net as well.

> Meaning, can you
> bring up the different pages in both Dreamweaver and Visual Studio without
> having any formating or coding conflicts?

If you use VS.net, you use the codebehind model in asp.net, which means much
of the page logic is then kept in a separate file. DW doesn't 'get' that
and, as such, you probably won't be using DW to directly edit aspx pages.
That said, you can certainly still use DW to create HTML and THEN use vs.net
to do the rest.

-Darrel

Yes, you should get Visual Studio as it's much better at ASP.NET than
Dreamweaver. DW's strength is in making the page look pretty, and Visual
Studio gives it brains.

I do about 90% of my development in ASP.NET and the rest in DW.



"Jeremy Williams" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:e6upr4$428$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I am currently working for a large organization and am their lead web
>designer
> / application developer. In the past I haved developed applications using
> classic asp and php. (This is where my comfort zone is.) In order for me
> to
> accomplish the needs of this organization, I have come to the conclusion
> that I
> am going to need to pursue asp.net more aggressively. More specifically,
> I am
> going to need to take advantage of some "web services" in order to connect
> their many data wherehouses, servers, etc. to the web. I believe this
> will
> necesitate my employing a programmer as I'm sure some of what needs to be
> done
> is out of my range of expertise.
>
> At any rate, I have come to learn that many folks who utilize asp.net work
> primarily (or even exclusively) in MS Visual Studio. In fact, this
> organization's information services department uses Visual Studio. My
> background and comfort zone is in Dreamweaver. Do you think I need to
> invest
> in Visual Studio or do you think I can accomplish what I need to using
> Dreamweaver? I have heard some people discuss that Dreamweaver is an
> excellent
> application for the overall design of the site and that Visual Studio is
> used
> to perform more of the "down in the trenches" coding on the "web services"
> end?
> If this is true, are both of these programs compatible? Meaning, can you
> bring up the different pages in both Dreamweaver and Visual Studio without
> having any formating or coding conflicts?
>
> I would appreciate any comments or enlightenment that any of you
> experienced
> masters can give me.
>