Dreamweaver MX for ColdFusion

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Dreamweaver MX for ColdFusion

• Tom Muck
• Co-author, Dreamweaver MX The Complete Reference

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Overview

• Introduction
• Topics Covered
• How DW MX came to be
• Merging Drumbeat / DW / CF Studio

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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 dont use
• Speedup hints www.dwteam.com/articles/

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Setting up a site

• Local info
• Remote info
• Testing server
• FTP/RDS
• Source control
• Check in/check out

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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

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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/

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Toolbars

• Document Toolbar
• Standard Toolbar
• Off by default
• View gt Toolbars gt Standard
• DRK Toolbar (Extra File Functions)

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Using Code View

• Code Hints
• Balancing tags
• Ctrl gt Spacebar for Function list
• Edit Tag
• Insert Tag
• The Tag Inspector
• Code Inspector

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The Help System in DW

• Contextual Reference panel
• F1, shift-F1, ctrl-F1
• Extending Dreamweaver Help
• Context Help Toolbar

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The Insert Bar

• ColdFusion Tags
• HTML tags
• Application objects

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The Property Inspector

• Contextual Based on Selection
• Tables, rows, cells
• Takes advantage of Bindings panel

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Server behaviors vs. Snippets

• Adding your own server behavior
• Adding a server behavior with multiple parameters

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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

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Resources

• www.macromedia.com/devnet/
• www.communitymx.com/
• www.dwteam.com/
• www.dwfaq.com/
• Dreamweaver MX The Complete Reference