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July 30, 2002

Simplified Component Creation

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...

July 29, 2002

Dreamweaver Debugging

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...

July 28, 2002

Longing For Full Screen Editing

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)

July 27, 2002

Peek Under The CF Covers

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)

July 25, 2002

Installing Web Server Connectors

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)

July 24, 2002

Command Line Start and Stop

Need to stop and start ColdFusion MX from the command line? The bin directory (beneath the ColdFusion root directory) contains batch files or scripts to stop and start ColdFusion as needed. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

July 23, 2002

Escaping Reserved SQL

ColdFusion does not allow words that are part of SQL to be used as column or table names. If you do have tables with invalid names you may still perform queries against them using query-of-queries, but you'll need to escape them first by enclosing them in between [ and ]. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

July 22, 2002

Charting Specific Data Points

and are used to create business charts in ColdFusion. Charts are usually data driven and utilize a passed query as the data source. But for greater control, and to chart specific data points, you may manually provide data using one or more tags within a tag pair. (Applies to: ColdFusion MX)

July 21, 2002

Rerunning the Migration Wizard

The ColdFusion Migration Wizard is run the first time the ColdFusion MX Administrator is executed. To force it to run again on Windows set registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMacromediaInstall DataNeomigrate to 1, on Unix boxes create a file named "upgrade" in the ColdFusion bin directory (the...

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