Integrating Dreamweaver and Visual Studio

[FSchmitthammer]

I need to use Dreamweaver with visual studio..

1. How do I integrate the Dreamweaver site into the visual studio project?
2. Can Dreamweaver create the files in the codebehind coding method?
3. Can Visual Studio pages be integrated into a Dreamweaver site?
4. Are there any extensions that allow the two products to work together?

Thanks,

Fred

[Paul Whitham TMM]

There is a tutorial on [url]www.charon.co.uk[/url] on how the programs work together
however simply put you do the layout in DW, add the webform controls and
then create a solution in VS and include the pages. VS will create the code
behind for the elements.

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Regards

Paul Whitham
Macromedia Certified Professional for Dreamweaver MX2004
Valleybiz Internet Design
[url]www.valleybiz.net[/url]

Team Macromedia Volunteer for Ultradev/Dreamweaver MX
[url]www.macromedia.com/support/forums/team_macromedia[/url]

"FSchmitthammer" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I need to use Dreamweaver with visual studio..
>
> 1. How do I integrate the Dreamweaver site into the visual studio

project?

> 2. Can Dreamweaver create the files in the codebehind coding method?
> 3. Can Visual Studio pages be integrated into a Dreamweaver site?
> 4. Are there any extensions that allow the two products to work together?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred
>

[darrel]

> 1. How do I integrate the Dreamweaver site into the visual studio
project?

They don't integrate well. Basically, VS.net is good for all the back-end
stuff, and sucks at the front end, while DW can't do the same back-end stuff
that VS.net can, but is much better on the front end.

For a while, I tried using both, but gave up in the end and pretty much just
use VS.net for my asp.net sites...even though it does mess up the front-end
markup quite a bit.

-Darrel

[Kevin Marshall]

Here is my way of doing things:

Create a new VS.NET project, then define a new Dreamweaver site using the
directory that VS.NET created.

Add new pages in MX, make them look nice, you can add .NET server controls
using MX also, once your happy with the layout save the page and move into
VS.NET, right click the new page in the VS.NET project explorer and include
it in the project, say yes in the popup dialog and VS.NET will create a
codebehind file for the page and also add the appropriate declarations for
any server controls found in the page. now you can write the server code in
VS.NET.

That way works quite well for me, this method combined with the free
Dreamweaver MX extensions available on our site has served me well :)

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Kevin Marshall
WebXeL.com Ltd
[url]http://www.webxel.com[/url]

ASP.NET Dreamweaver Extensions
[url]http://www.webxel-dw.co.uk[/url]
"FSchmitthammer" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I need to use Dreamweaver with visual studio..
>
> 1. How do I integrate the Dreamweaver site into the visual studio project?
> 2. Can Dreamweaver create the files in the codebehind coding method?
> 3. Can Visual Studio pages be integrated into a Dreamweaver site?
> 4. Are there any extensions that allow the two products to work together?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Fred
>

[FSchmitthammer]

Thank you.. I have a question... Once you create the site in this manner can you go back and forth between VS and DW to edit the pages?

I will check out your site...