Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition

Okay I’m trying this again folks. I’ve downloaded and am currently installing Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition on my computer.

I’ve been pounding away at a client application I’m developing and have been very happy using Dreamweaver 8 for everything I’m working on for the project. I’ve been using Macromedia Dreamweaver since version 2.0 and have always done the Dreamweaver / Fireworks together.

However, I’ve found that for this project I’m needing to display images in BLOB format from a SQL server database and I’ve been unsuccessful in finding a component or extension in Dreamweaver that allows me to do this easily. In my searching for potential solutions I came across ImageDraw from Neodynamics. The support from Neodynamics has been astounding too. I haven’t even purchased the product and their tech support, specifically Gabriel, has been amazing. He has helped me try to work with their product and integrate the capabilities into Dreamweaver.

This product seems to do exactly what we’re needing it to do and THEN SOME!, just not with Dreamweaver. So, I’m downloading and trying again. I don’t expect Visual Web Developer to replace my use of Dreamweaver 8, but it may pair up nicely for this project. If anyone has any application that integrates with Dreamweaver 8 and allows me to manage and develop applications and pull images from a database dynamically, then please let me know in the comments.