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Dreamweaver MX for ColdFusion. Tom Muck Co-author, Dreamweaver MX: The Complete Reference. Overview. Introduction Topics Covered How DW MX came to be Merging Drumbeat / DW / CF Studio. Setting Up the Environment . Using the HS/Coder view Setting Coding Preferences Code format Fonts
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Dreamweaver MX for ColdFusion Tom Muck Co-author, Dreamweaver MX: The Complete Reference
Overview • Introduction • Topics Covered • How DW MX came to be • Merging Drumbeat / DW / CF Studio
Setting Up the Environment • Using the HS/Coder view • Setting Coding Preferences • Code format • Fonts • Code coloring • Showing/Hiding panels • Removing Panels • Remove panels you don’t use • Speedup hints: www.dwteam.com/articles/
Setting up a site • Local info • Remote info • Testing server • FTP/RDS • Source control • Check in/check out
Setting Up the Environment (cont) • Application Panel Group • Databases panel • Bindings panel • Code hints for variables • Use variables in other parts of DW • Server behaviors panel • Components panel
Setting up snippets • Creating new snippets • Importing CF Studio Snippets • http://www.dwfaq.com/Snippets/converter.asp • Locating snippets • Snippets exchange • www.dwfaq.com/snippets/
Toolbars • Document Toolbar • Standard Toolbar • Off by default • View > Toolbars > Standard • DRK Toolbar (Extra File Functions)
Using Code View • Code Hints • Balancing tags • Ctrl > Spacebar for Function list • Edit Tag • Insert Tag • The Tag Inspector • Code Inspector
The Help System in DW • Contextual Reference panel • F1, shift-F1, ctrl-F1 • Extending Dreamweaver Help • Context Help Toolbar
The Insert Bar • ColdFusion Tags • HTML tags • Application objects
The Property Inspector • Contextual Based on Selection • Tables, rows, cells • Takes advantage of Bindings panel
Server behaviors vs. Snippets • Adding your own server behavior • Adding a server behavior with multiple parameters
Summing up • DW is not CF Studio • Homesite+ comes with Studio MX • Use tools side by side to take advantage of best features of both
Resources • www.macromedia.com/devnet/ • www.communitymx.com/ • www.dwteam.com/ • www.dwfaq.com/ • Dreamweaver MX: The Complete Reference