Visual Studio Vs Dreamweaver Which One to Use For Your Website



Not sure which one to choose – Dreamweaver or Visual studio? Want to know whose market position is stronger and which is more effective? Read this article to make an informed decision.


Introduction


Everyone wants the best available tool to get their jobs done, especially when it comes to Web Development. You want to get the best possible results out of the best tools. If you ask people to choose between Visual Studio and Dreamweaver, the majority of the people will vote for Dreamweaver because of its multifunctional features. In this article, I am going to mention some important features of both the programs which, I am sure, will help you choosing the best one for you.  

Visual Studio


Microsoft Visual Studio‘s Visual Interdev tool allows you to get a high quality application development studio. Development tools that are designed by Microsoft intend to make things easy for the developer and Interdev is one of them. Striking web applications are provided by this tool. Microsoft Visual Studio‘s Visual Interdev offers data-driven web applications with the help of a data source that is supported by OLE DB or ODBC (Microsoft’s Database Management systems). It allows you testing, debugging and quick design of your web pages through its extensive toolbox, Design-time Controls (DTCs) and Scripting Object model. Microsoft’s multimedia features, and dynamic HTML help writing the broad –reach web pages. It provides integrated web solutions including applets crafted in Microsoft® Visual FoxPro®, Visual J++™, Visual Basic® and Visual C++®.  

But it is not devoid of shortcomings. Microsoft software works well with Microsoft applications whether it is Internet Information Server, SQL server or Transaction server but it does not treat the same way with similar applications or products from other sellers. This may be one of the strategies to sell their products other than others but it causes enough hindrance to those who are using it. Microsoft’s .NET guarantees the overall development of web and software updates but to what extent it may be true is not known or it may be not the best time to come to a conclusion.  

Adobe Dreamweaver


It is by far the most effective and popular web design software program that is available in the market. It is a WYWIWYG (What You Want Is What You Get) program. The latest version of this award-winning program is CS6. It runs on Windows and Mac computers. It provides awe-striking design features, elevated development tools, support XML, CSS 3, PHP, AJAX, HTML 5 and lots more. It contains large number of features including floating dialogue box, customizable palettes and toolbars. It has similar interface like InDesign, Photoshop or Illustrator. You can create lots of advanced interactive features with the help of this program such as simple native applications for mobile devices, rollover images, collapsible panels, fluid-grid layouts and drop-down menus. Effective panels and widgets expand these features and this makes Dreamweaver go far beyond all other programs in the same category.  

Dreamweaver Overshadows Visual Studio


If your intention is to develop dynamic web pages then go for Visual web developer. The second reason for which you can rely on it is that you will get it absolutely free. When you are not an expert in writing codes, visual studio program is a great way to start with for practicing and when you don’t have enough money to spend on. Dreamweaver is not a free program. Visual studio has integrated server and Dreamweaver does not have. Visual studio does not let you to see the design whereas it is allowed by Dreamweaver. There are several other features which are missing on Visual studio such as demos of what you are coding can be seen, code formatting can be seen too and so on. Visual studio allows coding while Dreamweaver supports both coding and designing.


Now it depends on you which one and for what purpose you want to use for your web development. If you will ask me, I recommend you Dreamweaver as it is more effective in every aspect than any other web development programs.


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It doesn't matter what code editor you use for your website, it depends upon the language you use. Visual Studio is good enough for C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, ASP.net, etc. It isn't good for php.


It makes the work of a programmer easier with all its embedded features. it is an design based code editor. That is why I like it. Dreamweaver on the other hand, gives me a chance to learn the codes thoroughly, since it does not come with ready made help plugins and designing features as such.
Over the years, I've had several versions of DW -- some were more stable than others.  I can honestly say, the FTP has never been a big problem for me.   If it ever becomes glitchy, I close DW and clear my cache or restore preferences as that fixes most  problems. 

**[Unusual behavior in Dreamweaver? Try restoring preferences.](https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html "https://helpx.adobe.com/dreamweaver/kb/restore-preferences-dreamweaver.html")** 

I mainly work with dynamic sites but I don't have more than 2,000 files per site folder.    Each site folder resides on my primary hard drive within my local testing server's default web directory (htdocs or www).   

![CC-testingServer1.jpg](/legacyfs/online/1550323_CC-testingServer1.jpg)

I use Ctrl+Shift+U to upload an open document to server.  To be quite honest, it happens so fast, I don't even see the background process panel.    If I'm uploading many files, I expand my files panel so I can compare contents of local site with remote server to ensure that the last modified timestamps are consistent.

![CC-FilesPanel-expanded.jpg](/legacyfs/online/1550322_CC-FilesPanel-expanded.jpg)

Finally, I had to turn off Real-Time backups and anti-virus scanning while I work.  When those processes were running in the background, everything came to a crawl. 

Hope this helps.



 Nancy O'Shea, ACP  

Alt-Web Design & Publishing heh wow, pc world doesn't work for me, must be [censored] off my adblocker something fierce, can't go through the slides.

but yeah a pdf reader only lets you read pdfs or fill out pdf forms. a productivity suite is usually only things like word and excel microsoft office.

a pdf editor, i.e. adobe acrobat, lets you actually make pdfs from scratch, and do things like add in typable boxes so you can make forms people can fill out and print or save and send off. (like a job application or a medical waver or something) i'm using ubuntu linux on my computer to type this, and i've been a regular linux user for the better part of the last 5 years.

i have to be honest, if by "making dvds" you mean video editing, you're going to be disappointed with what any version of linux has to offer. the tools linux has for the average home user's video editing needs are far, far behind what microsoft and apple give away for free with their systems. 

that aside, linux has excellent tools for the other needs you mentioned, and any major linux version you try is going to have all the major tools available. the key differences between linux versions (commonly called "distros" or "distributions") are generally found in default installed software, how you obtain new software (package management), and maybe hardware detection.

personally, i would recommend ubuntu. there are other excellent choices out there (fedora, suse), but i give ubuntu the nod for its excellent combination of default software, hardware support, and tools for installing new software. plus, it has a great community that will help you get started.

[additional info regarding video editing - 
i'm referring to software accessible to the average home user. i am not referring to professional, hollywood-level software. there is nothing available on linux that compares to apple's imovie or microsoft's windows movie maker, which is what i assume the asker is hoping for. if you know of such a program, i'd be happy to hear about it.] while the 10710u is more powerful, the 10510u is enough for browsing and other office tasks. if you're mostly gonna be browsing or watching movies, both of them will do just fine. but uhd display gives the 10510u an extra advantage.
but if you're gonna be playing games or creating/editing multimedia contents(or 3d renders), the extra power of 10710u will be very handy. adobe photoshop - known for its versatility and useful tools, adobe photoshop is a photo-editing software geared with set of tools like cloning stamp that removes any unwanted sticker from a photo. [VNC](http://www.realvnc.com/index.html) is an excellent tool for this purpose. There are other versions out there called UltraVNC, TightVNC. You can also use Remote Desktop if these are Windows machines.


You could also use STRCPYSCN There is no DDEX provider package for VS 2017 (yet). <https://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/tktview?name=8292431f51> 


Basically you need to wait for: sqlite-netFx46-setup-bundle-x86-2017-1.0.1xx.0.exe 


"Official" update:



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> The current estimate is that support for Visual Studio 2017 will
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> mistachkin added on 2017-05-28 20:41:40: At this point, it seems unlikely that I'll be able to add VS 2017 support for the design-time components (e.g. table designer, entity wizard, etc).
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**UPDATE:** I have created a DDEX provider that enables SQLite support (for EF6 only) in Visual Studio 2017, see the how-to guide here: <https://github.com/ErikEJ/SqlCeToolbox/wiki/EF6-workflow-with-SQLite-DDEX-provider> as i noted learning javascript is a good place to go as it’s used to make webpages more dynamic! the front end engineer career path may work well for you as the lessons you have already done will be completed, but there’s a lot of extra notes and such in it for html and css, as well as adding in the… this question is a bit harder to answer than it appears on the surface, because there really is a lot to programming, so a specific field of interest to narrow the search could help narrow the list.

zorin os ultimate comes with a lot of useful programming applications that i would not have otherwis… i would say that rightfont 3 is probably the best paid font manager for the mac. looks great, has all the features one needs these days and is made for modern macs. the old faves suitcase fusion and fontexplorer x pro are pricey with a dated ui.