[thelist] MS Visual InterDev 6.0

I concur. I'd a developer not a designer, VI6 is a great development tool
for all manner of web development code from asp, vbscript, jscript and html.
I've used it consistently to develop ecommerce sites to standard html stuff.
It beats any editor due to its debugging tool and makes life very easy when
dumping your code to a server for tetsing in a live environment. You can
download/order an evaluation copy 60 days I think from the MS site.

Simon

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[mailto:thelist-admin@lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of seb potter
Sent: Saturday, 13 May 2000 19:23
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Subject: Re: [thelist] MS Visual InterDev 6.0


On Fri, 12 May 2000, Michele sent me this:

> I wonder if I could get your valuable advice on purchasing and using MS
> Visual InterDev 6.0.  At over $500 is it really worth it?  What are your
> experiences?  From a web development point of view, what are the
> advantages/disadvantages to using it?


Hi Michele,

As a long-time ASP guy, I've been usinf Interdev since V1.0, and I have to
say
that I really hated those early versions.

However, I had to bit the bullet recently and start using Interdev 6, and
it's
absolutely amazing.

Now, the first thing you need to know is that it is *not* a visual design
tool.
If you want something to design webpages, go get DreamWeaver 3. Or event
better, leave that to your designers (if you have them.)

However, if what you need to do is code for ASP or VB, you've definitely got
the right environment. For example, you can connect to your ODBC data
source,
and in about 5 clicks, create all of the code necessary for pulling data out
of
that DB, by query, recordset, whatever. It's f'n fantastic.

VB is just as easy. InterDev has an extremely intelligent autocomplete
utility,
so often you can type the name of your oject, and the autocomplete displays
all
the methods and properties that you might want to access.

Finally, Interdev 6 won't rewrite your code for you, unless you want it to.

I don't know what else to say about the product except that it does almost
exactly what is written on the box.

Anyway, that's all just my subjective experience. If you can get hold of an
evaluation copy, give it a test. Editor software is so often a matter of
personal preference that you need to comfortable with whatever you're going
to
using for the majority of your work.

Hope this helps,

Seb.

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