Creating Dynamic Web Sites with .Net and Dreamweaver MX

Over the last two years Microsoft has been funneling billions into developing and promoting it's new technology: .Net.

In this article you will learn how to format Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX to work with .Net for your Microsoft Web Servers. By the end of this article you will be able to program a .Net web site.

Summary

Microsoft's .Net is a radical new direction for web developers. There is no reason why you can not adopt this new technology. Dreamweaver MX gives you the tools that enables you be up and running with .Net now, not tomorrow when you need to be learning the next technology.

Matthew David

Matthew David has been developing Flash based applications for over 6 years (that makes him very old in this business!). Examples of his work can be found at his web site www.matthewdavid.ws, or you can email him directly at mdavid@email.com.

Matthew’s most recent publications include content for Flash 5 Magic, Inside Dreamweaver 4, Flash 5: Visual FX, Web Publishing Bible and The Dreamweaver Bible. You can also see him popping up in many online magazines, such as Sitepoint.com, Windowatch.com, UDzone.com and DevX.com.

Currently, Matthew is working on two books and writing articles for Element K Journal’s Macromedia Solutions magazine. He is a available as a freelance consultant to work on web based projects.

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Comments

Now I'm confused.

November 21, 2002 by Owen Eastwick

I'm looking to make the transition from ASP/VBScript to ASP.net. Naturally I want to use the best possible variation and implement best practices from the outset. So which language should I choose VB.net or C#?

Here it states: C# is worth learning as it typically performs 10x faster than VB.Net.

However in this article: http://www.aspfaqs.com/aspfaqs/ShowFAQ.asp?FAQID=185, it states:
What language is the "best" language choice? If you are a VB wizard, should you take the time to learn C# or continue to use VB.NET? Are C# ASP.NET pages "faster" than VB.NET ASP.NET pages? These are questions that you may find yourself asking, especially when you're just starting to delve into .NET. Fortunately the answer is simple: there is no "best" language. All .NET languages use, at their root, functionality from the set of classes provided by the .NET Framework. Therefore, everything you can do in VB.NET you can do in C#, and vice-a-versa. The only differences among languages is merely a syntactical one.

The two articles are completely contradictory - so which is right?

RE: Now I'm confused.

November 21, 2002 by George Petrov

Hi Owen, I have to agree with you as both C# and VB.NET code gets compiled to the CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) they generated almost identical CLI code. So they really run at the approx same speed. I think David had it a bit wrong in its article. In the past this was true for C++ and VB - but not anymore in .NET

RE: RE: Now I'm confused.

November 21, 2002 by Owen Eastwick

Thank you George, that's a relief, while I believe there are still many differences I imagine that moving to VB.net from ASP/VBScript is a slightly smaller step than from ASP/VBScipt to C#.net.

RE: RE: Thanks for the tut. My dreamweaverMX still is not working with .net

December 3, 2002 by Matthew David

Hazelnut,

I just saw your question. I want to make sure that I have the following informtion correct:

you are running windows 2000
you have installed .NET 1.0
you are running MDAC 2.6+
you have Dreamweaver configured to develop for ASP.NET

As with ASP the .NET world can be a huggling act. I just want to make sure that everything is correct.

Matt

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