Jon, I found your review very helpful! I'll get UD4 when I upgrade instead
of DW4. It actually includes CFINCLUDEs? Great! Does it read
application.cfm? This would be very useful. For instance, I put my style
sheets into a header file that is included in application.cfm. That means
when I open my pages for design in DW3, I don't see the styles, along with
session variables and the like.
Any more reviews on UD4 would be helpful.
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UD1 was a good first step. I personally dont think it should have been
released as a product, but maybe it was good for ASP or PHP development,
but
it stunk for CF.
UD4 is a totally different story. It understand's <cfif> and <cfinclude>
unlike ud1. It can use your remote servers ODBC connection unlike ud1. On
top of the fact that it is Dreamweaver 4. It's very difficult to design a
visually complex site without a WYSIWYG design tool. Dreamweaver is the
number one program in this category right now, and most CF developers agree
with me here as shown in the recent CFDJ user awards.
While I dont think any of us will ever do any actual ColdFusion programming
in UD, it is exremely handy to see your live recordsets in your design, and
be able to tweak the visual elements with a mouse click.
That said, UD still does not understand the majority of cf tags. It needs
to
have propery inspectors for each tag, and make designing custom inspectors
easier. Perhaps a VTM import function?
I used to use Homesite and Dreamweaver, now I use Homesite and Ultradev
which doesn't choke on CF code. Ultradev is not going to ever be a
replacement for Studio, unless they go to extremes like IBM has done with
VisualAge for Java.
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