Where to start with ASP.net in C # and Dreamweaver?

Question

I want to start working on a personal site using C #. I work as a web developer and previously used VBScript, and now I use Coldfusion at work. I use Dreamweaver to develop in these languages.

I read a lot of people recommending you use the MS IDE for development in .net and that C # is the path to the language. I would like to stick to Dreamweaver, because I feel that I will learn too much to learn how to use the new IDE and the new language at the same time.

Will using something like Visual Studio for development in .net so that it is worth the effort to switch from Dreamweaver? If so, which IDE is best to learn from?

If I decide to stick with Dreamweaver, are there any recommendations you can make regarding how best to configure Dreamweaver for easy development?

Answer 1

I believe not. Dreamweaver is not a good code development tool. This is what you need in ASP.NET. You will need debugging. You will like IntelliSense, and you can always open individual files in Dreamweaver (in any case, I doubt that you will).

Grab Visual Studio Express 2013 for the web (free) and enjoy. This is a Windows application, like many other Windows applications! You do not need professional training to use it.

Answer 2

As someone who has previously encoded PHP in Dreamweaver, I highly recommend using the Visual Studio IDE for ASP.NET ASP.NET applications. The benefits are numerous:

• Intellisense - when you create an object, property, method, etc. will automatically appear in the autocomplete window, dramatically reducing syntax errors.
• Project templates - starting a web application from scratch will be very difficult if you need to do all this with source code
• Debugging - errors can be detected and debugged directly in the source code
• add - ons - my favorite is the configuration section constructor

I am sure that there are even more reasons, these are the biggest.

Answer 3

If you are comfortable using Dreamweaver for design, you can still use it, but I highly recommend you check out Visual Studio Express however (it's free). Trying to learn .NET and C # with a text editor or application like Dreamweaver is feasible, but you would make the learning process unnecessarily complicated. Visual Studio gives you syntax highlighting, intellisense, debugging, and many other features that you’re just not going to use in another web design-oriented IDE. VS is really very closely related to .NET development.

I started my career as a web designer many years ago with Dreamweaver and gradually moved on to a software developer. Outgoing tools, such as Dreamweaver behind, actually gave me much more freedom in terms of the work of the designer, and I found that in fact I did not need tools for markup and CSS, except for a text editor. You may find that abandoning a design tool such as Dreamweaver actually makes you a better designer; and just as well - the "design" tools in Visual Studio are completely useless :)

If you decide to continue using Dreamweaver for markup, keep in mind that in Visual Studio everything may look different. Ignore the Visual Studio design panel completely and just check your design in different browsers (I'm sure you already did this).

Answer 4

I think you would be very disappointed with ASP.NET support in Dreamweaver. You would be much better off getting a copy of Visual Studio / Web Developer (express releases are free) and making your development there.

However, there is no reason why you cannot create your HTML and CSS in Dreamweaver and then bring these files to Visual Studio to actually enter the code. This is a kind of one-time deal, although as a rule, after you start splitting your HTML into main pages and user controls / partial views, it is quite difficult to go back and edit them again in Dreamweaver.

Answer 5

Visual Studio 2008 is likely to be better. Sometimes not only IntelliSense may be useful, but also debugging in JavaScript (I don’t know if it is included in the Express version).

Answer 6

Yes, based on the same situation that I can tell you, this will help you get away from Dreamweaver for your .net work. Intellisense for C # is not very good in Dreamweaver. You will find features that you have missed a lot from Dreamweaver, although in particular code completion on the HTML side is much better in Dreamweaver than in VS.

Answer 7

Another vote for Visual Studio, adding that you don't have to give up Dreamweaver. You can use Dreamweaver to create the basic layout and interface design. Then use Visual Studio to implement the implementation of this project.

You will find an ASP.Net building without a purposeful IDE painful.

Answer 8

I would very much like to note that IntelliSense is not new or invented by Microsoft. IntelliSense IS code hints with links to a Microsoft help page that I never personally needed. See that Dreamweaver does have code that is exactly the same as Visual Studio, however it is not intended for developing C # and similar languages, and for this reason I would not recommend developing it. As for purely HTML, CSS, and JavaScript development, a simple text editor is a better choice than Visual Studio if you don't change any settings. There are so many things that I hate about how VS behaves when I write HTML, but this is another thread. On another site.