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Posted by Brian Cryer on 03/20/06 11:29
"Noozer" <dont.spam@me.here> wrote in message
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> ...so I'm looking for a better development environment.
>
> Currently, I'm a fairly green ASP programmer. Most of my databases have
> been MS Access, but I'm developing on MS SQL server. I'm hoping to learn
> PHP in the near future. Most of my scripting is done in VBScript, but I do
> employ Javascript as well.
>
> Most of my coding up until recently was simply done with Notepad and a
> browser open to Google for tags and script that I had issues with. I've
> never liked using WYSIWYG layout editors.
>
> What I'd like in an IDE is:
> - able to open and save using FTP to my web host
> - colour coded syntax
> - automatic listing of members
> - the ability to automatically apply attribute quotes and close tags
> - multiple documents open at one time
> - validate for specific browsers or HTML standards
> - no need for WYSIWYG layout editors
> - no complicated Source file control
>
> Am I hoping for too much, or is there actually something out there?
Personally I don't think ASP has a future. I would suggest either you
migrate to .NET (its brilliant) or PHP (not quite so quick to develop with
but unlike .Net it doesn't constrain you to needing IIS hosting).
I must admit I've not used the 2005 IDE, I'm still using the 2003 version.
If its anything like the previous version then it is superb at developing
..Net applications, but doesn't really support ASP. For that you would be
better of looking at an old version of Visual-InterDev on ebay.
For PHP I've been using PHPEdit, not bad but you get what you pay for. (Its
cheap but not free although does come with a 30 day evaluation period.)
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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