Why would anyone not use vs 2005 to dev asp.net?

Im taking over a project at my new job and I think the last developer used
dreamweaver to develop asp.net pages using c#. Why wouldnt he use visual studio?
Is it that some people just dont want the help of intellisense? Or do some
people like being a "purist" and coding with no help from an IDE? no
offense to anyone out there, I couldnt imagine not having the intellisense.
Thanks!

Ryan

Hi,

some people are probably more comfortable with a tool they already know when
they start with ASP.NET or they just it much better or they're forced to develop
with it because it's the company's standard and the boss isn't willing to pay
for vs.net. Okay that last one could be easily countered with the free available
Webmatrix or VWD Express tools. Another reason could be is that the same
developer develops ASP.NET and PHP or Coldfusion pages.

Personally I like vs.net 2005 a lot but a couple of years ago I only had a very
old pc and the only thing that I could use on it was Webmatrix withouth
Intellisense. I created several code snippets with that tool to help out people
on these forums. On the other hand, while typing in everything myself, case
sensitive as C# is, without the support of Intellisense I learned to code better
and to better understand the namespaces and properties available to me. I
consider Intellisense to be more like a huge performance boost enables while
coding but it doesn't actually provide someone being a better coder if (s)he
doesn't have a clue what's (s)he's dealing with.

So the conclusion is: everyone likes to use the tools (s)he wants. If someone's
happy using notepad to develop ASP.NET webforms, I also did that in the past,
just let him/her be and stay happy with the choice you've made if that's the
right one for you.

Grz, Kris.

In his defense, the project he started was in 8/05 and I dont think the free
express version of vs was out. It is now and Im going to use it and then get the
company to buy vs pro. Does anyone know if im allowed to use vs express in a
production environment? Thanks

Ryan

ryanoc:Does anyone know if im allowed to use vs express in a production
environment?

I don't see a reason why you couldn't. Vs 2005 has more possibilities but I
don't see why Microsoft would not permit using VWD for your development. You
could also create your code with notepad and deploy it if you'd like.

Grz, Kris.

One of the posts was quite correct. I have used dreamweaver for about 5 years
and over the last year have started using VS2005 Pro. I love coding in VS
because life is so much easier with Intellisense. I learned by trial and error
with Dreamweaver in regards to ASP.NET. However, I used it for both PHP and
ASP.NET Development and it suited the needs at the time. 

I also like the horizontal layout of the properties panel versus VS's vertical
properties panel. While it's nice to be able to have it autohide in VS and I've
gotten used to the vertical layout on everything, horizontal is still much
easier to use. Designing in VS2005 Pro isn't quite as easy as Dreamweaver 8 but
it works nonetheless. Also dreamweaver has a great way of managing Sites all
from one location as well as the built in FTP/WebDav/LocalNetwork tool to sync
files upload files see what files our local and on the server. Love the split
screen. VS2005 has projects which make organization great, however the
publishing tool doesn't quite reach DW 8 quality. Other than that I wouldn't
ever develop ASP.NET in dreamweaver again but I still use dreamweaver for laying
out new website and then doing the code in VS2005.

Just my two cents!

JoeWeb