Well, everybody else has put their two cents in, so I might as well. I for one, never liked CFS... I never really used it for more than an hour or so before I had to get rid of it. Apparently, when one set to install it, it always overwrote a critical Internet Explorer .DLL, (to install the RDS objects in MyComputer) and screwed up my computer beyond repair. Microsoft's solution was always to reinstall Windows. I did, however grow up using MS-Studio as my CFML/HTML editor. I found some tag-addon for MS-Studio that imported all the CFML tags, so it would use intelli-sense on them as well. MS-Studio is really a nice editor... Database viewer, SQL tester, SQL Builder, SourceSafe, and a double pane view to see what you were doing. Sure it wasn't MADE for CF, but it did the trick for me. The only annoying part was you always had to start a new 'project' just to work on a few pages that were already setup within a project.
But since, I've dropped MS-Studio and gone to DWMX, and love it. I, personally have found very few of the bugs annoying, and I actually find some of the wizards very useful for quick-n-dirty sites. As far as sniplets, I always start my pages with a pre-made template, I've got about a dozen of them, all with a comment block already made, one with the CFAPPLICATION, etc. Most of the rest of the things I need are on the toolbar. I never really use the Assets box, except for the templates. One feature I do use that nobody has mentioned as of yet is the debugger. It's really nice to be able to just click 'Debug Page' within DWMX, and on the bottom of my screen, I can see what every variable is doing. Sure, I could do the same by looking at the processed page after I hit [f12], but why switch windows? If code fails, I can find out exactly which line (and sometimes it highlights it for me ;P ) Well, there you go, folks ;) -Nick Kwiatkowski Hostingplace.NET Sr. Application Developer -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean A Corfield Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 1:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] [OT] CFDJ Awards On Tuesday, Jun 3, 2003, at 20:44 US/Pacific, Scott Barnes wrote: > [Scott] I can understand the economics involved, but every single cf > programmer I have spoken has stated that they would rather be using > CFSTUDIO then any other product and while I can see it being faded > out, its still a sad loss as it could of been better improved? I have spoken to quite a few CFers who prefer DWMX so they do exist... > maybe [MM] could release the source code for cfstudio and allow the > community to enhance it... Well, I can pass on the suggestion :) > [Scott] It re-writes the tags to some MM: one. Do a CFINCLUDE on a .js > file, save that file. Then run it in the browser and view source, > you'll see that its got some MM based tag. Sounds like you're referring to this issue: http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/ts/documents/ translator_code.htm > Furthermore I've found problmes in DWMX locking files after browsing. Hmm, never seen that one so I might be tempted to blame Teambuilder... :) > [Scott] In CFS you can use the expression builder as a click facility > (once again, lazy typing comes into play here). Where by I can build a > formula like.. #DateAdd('d',3, CreateODBCDateFormat(Now()))# .. at the > same time i can see the insight into the functions i am using (ie tag > insight etc). It also has the autocomplete ability aswell. I guess I still don't really see what it actually *does*... DWMX already provides prompts for argument types on CF functions (e.g., type 'dateadd(' and DW prompts you with "datepart, number, date" and as you fill in each argument it reminds you what the others are). Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
