I use dreamweaver for all my websites and applications. I am building a new site that I would prefer to build in .NET. I have been messing with visual studio and don't really like it. but my fear is that the website will not be a good as it could be if I choose to use DW instead of VS.

Can anyone give me some advice on what I should use?

Hi,

DW is a nicer and better HTML-editor. But VS is a far better AP environment when you want to use .net.
My way is to create the HTML in DW. Copy the html-parts into VS.
In VS you can then use the (new) masterpages, and you can tranform your html-parts into user controls. That would give you ultimate flexibility.
DW only supports .NET 1 and it does even this only partially.
I just do not dare to estimate when MM/Adobe will ever be able to release a solid way to work with ASP.NET 2.0. Actually i doubt if they ever will.
Take a peek at the gigantic class-library that MS has written for .NET and it will be obvious that MM/Adobe will have a hell of time if they want to play catch up. If they ever can.
By the way, ASP. NET 2.0 with Visual Web Designer 2005 and the free SQL Server Express 2005 is to cool not to use....

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