General questions about Dreamweaver

Report · Jun 25, 2007

Hi,

I'm somewhat a newbie to web development (mostly do windows application development) so I'm trying to determine the best tools to acquire to learn and work in.

I have done a little in Visual studio with asp.net (2.0) so I'm somewhat familiar with that tool. I was looking at taking some online classes in web design and it appears most use dreamweaver as the tool of choice.

So my question is can you do code behind like you can in asp? In other words, can I write code on component events, like a button click? Maybe it is better to ask what I can't do in DW?

I'll probably purchase DW cs3 version via the academic stores (or Creative Web Suite).

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks
Rut

Report · Jun 25, 2007

If you are already familiar with Visual Studio stick with it. DW does NOT do
ASP.NET 2.0 and it will eventually frustrate you.

"rccrut" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:f5p699$h4h$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm somewhat a newbie to web development (mostly do windows application
> development) so I'm trying to determine the best tools to acquire to learn
> and
> work in.
>
> I have done a little in Visual studio with asp.net (2.0) so I'm somewhat
> familiar with that tool. I was looking at taking some online classes in
> web
> design and it appears most use dreamweaver as the tool of choice.
>
> So my question is can you do code behind like you can in asp? In other
> words,
> can I write code on component events, like a button click? Maybe it is
> better
> to ask what I can't do in DW?
>
> I'll probably purchase DW cs3 version via the academic stores (or Creative
> Web
> Suite).
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Rut
>

Report · Jun 25, 2007

asp.net aside, can you still do code behind (of some type) in DW? What language would it be?

Report · Jun 26, 2007

No, DW does not handle code-behind.
You'll end up using both programs, VS for your server-side code and DW for
your HTML design. DW is not really suitable for .NET programming. DW does
handle more traditional server-side technologies very well, however.

"rccrut" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> asp.net aside, can you still do code behind (of some type) in DW? What
> language would it be?

Report · Jun 26, 2007

So, just to expand on this (remember I'm pretty much a newbie at web stuff) If I design a site in DW and I need to pull data from a db or check login information for a given page or handle email submission, can I do that in DW or is it really just for laying out pages?

If you can do these things, what language or means does it use to provide that functionality?

Thanks,
Rut

Report · Jun 26, 2007

> can I do that in DW

Yes.

> what language or means does it use to provide that
> functionality?

ASP, ASP.Net, ColdFusion, PHP, or JSP - take your pick. DW's support for
.Net is rudimentary, but usable at some level. The rest are much more
robustly supported.

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"rccrut" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:f5rkar$hsn$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> So, just to expand on this (remember I'm pretty much a newbie at web
> stuff) If
> I design a site in DW and I need to pull data from a db or check login
> information for a given page or handle email submission, or
> is it really just for laying out pages?
>
> If you can do these things, what language or means does it use to provide
> that
> functionality?
>
> Thanks,
> Rut
>