Programming instructions

44 Chapter 4 Configuring Your Development Environment
The Dreamweaver MX environment
As a ColdFusion developer, you can build ColdFusion MX applications by writing the
code manually or generating the code by using one of the code-generating tools provided
with Dreamweaver MX.
Features for ColdFusion developers
Dreamweaver MX provides a wide variety of code editing features for ColdFusion
developers, including the following:
• Rich tag editors for quickly setting attributes and values for every CFML tag.
• Code hints for writing CFML tag attributes.
• Code validator for validating code readiness against other ColdFusion versions.
• Tag chooser with integrated reference material for inserting ColdFusion tags.
• Snippets panel for reusing code.
• Integrated debugging display for quickly pinpointing problem areas in the code.
• Remote ColdFusion server connection for browsing remote data sources and files.
If you plan to use Dreamweaver MX or HomeSite+ to build the sample ColdFusion
application in Part II of this book, see the following sections for information about
configuring these tools for ColdFusion development.