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
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>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.
>
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