Editor with ASP???

Just started in the world of ASP, and am astounded by its ease of use and power! Got the book suggested in the topic 'sticky' and have started on my website project.

Just wondering what a good web page editor to use with it would be, or is it best to handcode, dreamweaver,etc.

Is virtual studio any good for editing asp pages?

any help appreciated

Hi Simon...

Until you have mastered ASP and HTML, use notepad.

I strongly suggest not using any tools that produce code for you. If you do you may as well throw that book away, and buy a book about dreamweaver or whatever tool you choose.

If you go down the raw coding route, not only will you come to appreciate the power of the language, but you will also write better code, and learn much much more in the long run. You will be in total control of every aspect of your code unlike when using an editor.

When an application created in dreamweaver, or some other tool breaks down, will you have the knowledge to fix it by manually editing the spagetti code? Until you can answer yes to that question, I would highly recommend not using any helper editors.

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I see your point, well made, will endeavor to use notepad! Its going to be hard, i'm so lazy.

Cheers

Personally I would use something slightly more user friendly than NotePad, something that allows search & replace, line numbers and colours etc, try http://www.aspexpress.com/aspexpress.asp

Notepad allows search and replace! It's my favourite program

i shall try asp express, i always end up saving my file as a file.asp.txt in notepad ! how annoying

Second thoughts, its not free. Notepad here we come!

What about source edit?? Or am i just being lazy again??

any editor that is not wysiwyg based, should be fine.

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Well I use Dreamweaver to do my code. But I turn off the code tag reminders and all that. So all it really does is help me so if I opend up a " without closing it and stuff like that. It color codes everything for me and it makes it easy to go straight to my ASP code. Just make sure you turn of auto complete on your Tags, or it WILL get very annoying when your editing stuff.

I've been a long time user and fan of Homesite.

i do the same as Court Jester