Hey,

I have a simple question which I am finding difficult to understand. I am new to ASP.NET and dreamweaver and I am trying to learn them on my own.

What I am finding difficult to understand is, what is the use of ASP.NET combined with dreamweaver? What are the functions that ASP.NET is capable of doing that the DW is not capable of doing on its own?

Thanks very much

Dreamweaver is web development application it support ASP.NET framework. for more information kindly visit this URL http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409338

In all honesty I'm not a fan of Dreamweaver. To be quite honest if you are just starting out please refrain from using it until you understand what happens in the background. When you use a tool like Dreamweaver or Front Page it builds the HTML, CSS, Javascript and I'm assuming maybe some server side stuff automatically.

What happens if you want to do something that Dreamweaver doesn't allow right in the WYSIWYG. Understanding the basics of HTML, CSS and javascript should be your first goal. Once you understand that then feel free to use a program like Dreamweaver.

As for ASP.net, pick up some books. Dreamweaver and ASP.Net are in no way related. DW pumps out markup and javascript. ASP.Net runs on the server and generates the markup on the fly. I think once you see how this is all done you'll realize that seeing it in DW will just confuse you.

One last thing, IIS and Windows Server 2003 are not 2 different web servers, one runs on top of the other.

OK the last thing, I promise. Apache has an add in called mono that will allow you to run .Net 2.0 (right now, 3.0 to come). So you can setup and free linux server and still be able to host .Net site using Apache with mono.

ASP.NET and Dreamweaver sounds strange combination. You'd better use Visual Studio to develop your asp.net sites

It will always be better to use the Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer to develop asp.net website because there are several built-in features and designer in it that may reduce your coding time. Moreover, its intellisense feature may also help you in making less error prone coding.