This is an annoying one, but you should know it anyway. The options in the Application window in Dreamweaver MX will be grayed out (and inaccessible) unless a file is open - any file, not necessarily a file in the site you are working on. If you need to browse a database or introspect a component...
Writing code that needs to be accessible and section 508 compliant? Dreamweaver’s reporting option can help. Select Reports from the site menu, check the Accessibility report, pick the files to be checked (file, site, or folder), and then click Run. A detailed report will be displayed in the...
Looking for Open, New, Save, Copy, and Paste buttons? All of those, and more, are on the Dreamweaver Standard toolbar, which is not displayed by default. To display this toolbar right click on the document toolbar and check the Standard selection (alternatively you can select Toolbars from the View...
Dreamweaver MX features several ways to get help. For help with Dreamweaver itself, press F1. For help with ColdFusion, and to access the CFML reference, press Ctrl-F1. For context sensitive help relevant to the selected tag, press Shift-F1. (Applies to: Dreamweaver MX)
Creating ColdFusion Components (CFC's)? You should be, and Dreamweaver MX can help you do so. From the components tab (in the Application window) click the + button to launch a wizard that will generate an entire CFC shell for you, complete with methods, arguments, data types, hints, and more. All...
Dreamweaver MX can be used to debug ColdFusion applications, displaying the same data that usually gets appended to CF generated output (or docked if using the new dockable format). To view debug information in Dreamweaver you must switch to Server Debug mode (there is a toolbar button for this, or...
ColdFusion Studio users knew to toggle F9 to create more editor space by temporarily hiding Studio's Resource Tab. To accomplish this in Dreamweaver MX toggle F4 (it actually hides even more than Studio did). (Applies to: Dreamweaver MX)
Want to learn how some of CFML's built-in tags work? Look in the cftags directory beneath WEB-INF (under the Web root), you'll find unencoded CFML source for over a dozen CFML tags including and all the tags. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)
To disconnect ColdFusion from associated Web Servers, use the Remove_ALL_connectors batch file in the binconnectors directory (under the ColdFusion root directory). (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)
ColdFusion should be associated (connected) with your Web server during installation. To recreate this association you'll find connector batch files (or scripts) in the binconnectors directory (under the ColdFusion root directory). (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)