I have been using DW-MX for 2 days now and here are some observations:
The Top Panel is called Insert Ctrl-F2) to make it appear and disapear. It took me a while to find it, why isn't it called a panel, why insert, why not the objects panel? It's much handier than the Floating objects panel (although you can make it float) it's difficult to re-dock it once it's loose and it does funky things to the code view while it's over it.
I have crashed Dreamweaver MX about 5 times today and had to reboot my machine 2x because it was sucking all of my Processor and 1/2 my memory. (This happened after it crashed, I am using WinXP Professional.)

The crashes occured mainly while formatting and displaying DATA enabled pages, and while browing the Data Source (SQL 2000). Also the CSS support is kinda funky and I think WEAK considering how much time they have had to really make CSS shine, they instead try to palm off Top-Style to the user as a solution, why not just have a decent CSS solution? Also the documents seem to lose their grip on the stylesheets occasionally and lose all formatting. (I reapplied the stylesheet and it brought it back, however I had 3 stylesheet links in the head, and I had to delete them manually. The increase in speed is not what I had hoped for, it's still semi-sluggish, however the file system has vastly improved you can now browse the file system from within the DW-MX site.
The whole interface borrows from VisualStudio.Net (VS.Net is much faster and smoother, then again it's $2500) which is good thing, the windows are easier to navigate, the palettes are neatly tucked away and the intellisense-like coding window is GREAT! All in all I am going to upgrade because it is my sincere hope that with all the support for the C# and asp.net it will be a great tool, and by the time they release the Final version I hope they have these bugs worked out.

I am running a DUAL Pentium 733 with 512 Megs of Ram, 32 meg video card. WinXp Professional.

Carolus Holman

Good points Carolus,

Maybe you can specify the exact steps to reproduce those crashes - so we can report that to Macromedia.

George

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I've been struggling with it overnight,and having a major headache with it.

I did a little demo DB page, to see what the differences where to UD and it will not let me select a local server.

All the information is there supplied in the boxes (yes, ive triple checked it), click ok and nothing happens, it just gives me the data bindings panel again but with no blue tick (those who have used it will know what i mean).

So, i dragged a site into it which was already set up with a db, string etc.. and same again, but this time it actually showed all my recordsets "greyed out" so i couldn't touch them...
Very bleak considering all the hype i thought and at a whopping 68mb download, i'm seriously wondering whether i should bother upgrading.
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"Nobody ever said this stuff was easy"

Well that was a waste of 3 minutes of my life, don't bother reading this.
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