Finding the list of files Dreamweaver will reopen on startup

• August 19, 2009
• James Skemp

As sometimes happens, a network share ended up going down while I was using Dreamweaver. Unfortunately, this can cause fairly major issues with Dreamweaver, if you have files still open, or if you have Dreamweaver closed, but need to open it up. Since I typically have more than one file open in Dreamweaver, and have set my preferences to remember what I've got open, I wanted to know where Dreamweaver stored the files that it was going to re-open.

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Keyboard shortcuts for Visual Studio that mimic Dreamweaver

• May 14, 2008
• James Skemp

I like Dreamweaver. After Notepad, and various other apps like it, I used FrontPage, was scarred, and was saved by Dreamweaver. However, Dreamweaver can't handle .NET files very well. So when I moved to Windows and started using BlogEngine.NET I naturally started looking at how I could edit the source files. Visual Web Developer 2005 had been released, so ... Skipping forward, I'm starting to work with Visual Studio more and more.

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My Dreamweaver 8 Preferences

• April 19, 2008
• James Skemp

This is almost purely for my own benefit ... Edit > Preferences Code Format Indent with 1 Tab Code Hints Close tags: Never Invisible Elements Scripts Comments  Line breaks CSS dipslay: none All other settings are defaults.

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My first video to Google Video?

• September 25, 2006
• James Skemp

Yesterday, I did multiple takes for a video on how to create snippets in Dreamweaver 8. The video ended up being pretty good, I think, albeit the video size was a bit large, and the resolution was a bit small (640x480 is what Google recommends).

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Installing Subversion and TortoiseSVN to a Windows XP, Home Edition, SP2, local machine with Dreamweaver 8

• September 16, 2006
• James Skemp

The Subversion aspect has been updated for Windows Vista. So too has the TortoiseSVN installation. The Dreamweaver aspect has not been touched. I also have an article about using Subversion.  When projects become large, or you have the need to keep information on what files you've modified, for any coding project, you may look for some kind of version control system. There's software like Microsoft's SourceSafe, but that can be costly, and according to some, it's a clunky solution.

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Dreamweaver 8 as a MXML IDE?

• September 7, 2006
• James Skemp

I've spent the last couple of hours trying to get Dreamweaver 8 to begin to function as a MXML IDE. Unfortunately, while I can get every <mx: tag added to the code hints, I'm having a heck of a time getting the actual code hints to function. The small tutorial that Macromedia (and truly it was Macromedia at the time) provided isn't very helpful at all. CodeSnipers.com (link below) has some information on using Dreamweaver 8 a Ruby IDE, but since Ruby appears to be so function based .

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Compiling Flex applications with Dreamweaver

• September 6, 2006
• James Skemp

Tom Lee wrote a post in July detailing how to compile and run Flex applications using Dreamweaver. Since Flex 2 is making me very excited, I felt it was post worthy (especially since I won't have to do a Google search to get back to his post now).

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Setting up Dreamweaver and Nvu to recognize your server

• February 19, 2006
• James Skemp

Now that we've setup Apache on our local computer, and effectively created a basic Web server, it's time to look at setting up some popular programs to work with these sites. I'll be looking at two programs, the costly Dreamweaver (8) and the free Nvu (1.0).

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Free file comparision in Dreamweaver

• October 31, 2005
• James Skemp

I found a great post at http://angelo.mandato.com/blog/?p=39, regarding a free file comparision utility for Dreamweaver / Windows, called WinMerge (winmerge.org).

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