ColdFusion Studio is NOT Dead!

I recently came across a few people who thought that ColdFusion Studio, the IDE of choice for many CF developers, was dead. This is not true. ColdFusion Studio is now known as HomeSite+, and comes on the CD you get when you purchase Dreamweaver MX. Now, you may not like Dreamweaver, but the cost of DWMX is less than what a new puchase of Studio 5 would have been. Some people also bring up the fact that HomeSite+ does not let you modify the environment. This is true of the initial release. However, a recent update corrects this, as well as some bugs, and is well worth downloading.

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=homesite

If you like Studio, you should defintely check out HomeSite+.

Archived Comments

Comment 1 by Raymond Camden posted on 6/5/2003 at 7:22 PM

Just testing.

Comment 2 by Ben Forta posted on 6/5/2003 at 8:11 PM

No matter how many times this has been said it apparently still needs to be repeated. Thank you Ray!

Comment 3 by Scott Fitchet posted on 6/5/2003 at 10:09 PM

Any idea if there is a demo available of "Homesite+"? After surfing for a download my impression is that it''s only on the purchased Dreamweaver CD.

Comment 4 by stylo~ posted on 6/6/2003 at 3:11 AM

Do you know if/how we can apply any updates with fixes for Homesite to CF5 Studio? There was an update recently that included things like the search function losing its place after corrections are made, and such. (Homesite 5.1 update?)

Any ideas on getting those or any other fixes into CF5 Studio?

Comment 5 by Raymond Camden posted on 6/6/2003 at 3:32 PM

Scott - no demo (afaik).
Stylo: I believe there was an update to Studio 5 after it was released - the best place to look would be the product support part of MACR.

Comment 6 by stylo~ posted on 6/7/2003 at 5:01 AM

I meant a very recent update that I saw for Homesite while many of the same issues remain in cf5.

I find the MM site completely unusable now. Can''t even search for custom tags anymore. Are they that brainless? No right click, no back button, slow... Absolutely painful to use. Hopefully they don''t take CF down by associating it too closely with flash over time.

Comment 7 by Kim Bélanger posted on 6/7/2003 at 8:28 AM

Stylo, i agree on this one, i quit searching in their tags exchange lib. wait - wait - wait, and no accessibility at all. At least they comfort me not using flash as navigation system in a site, good ol'' html is always our savior...

K

Comment 8 by Faser posted on 6/9/2003 at 2:43 PM

Sorry, but I think this never ending story about CFS/HS/HS+ is ridicolous. These tools have no future. It''s really clear.
Rumor, rumor always rumor .....but a clear, honest, official and definitive
message from Macromedia has not arrived yet. All Macromedia marketing never say a word about CFS/HS/HS+. Articles, extensions, improvements, marketing etc are all for DW. They say it''s a better tool. If DW is the best, why MM have to continue to develop and to sell CFS/HS?
I'' m an old and faithful CF and HS user. I continue to use them also if I''m a
ColdFusion developer and MM wants I switch to DW, but honestly I can''t suggest to the company where I work to buy more licenses. It''s better that the new devlopers starts with a new editor, an editor with a future.
From MM web site a new customer will never know of CFS/HS existence! It''s a normal behaviour for a company that wants to continue to sell their software? I don''t think so. I should have prefer that MM say that they can''t continue to support these tools for some reasons and that they will not be improved...like KAWA and others software.
R.I.P CFS/HS

Comment 9 by Tormod Guldvog posted on 6/27/2003 at 12:32 AM

Nobody seems to care...but there is no Homesite+ for the Mac. But then again, there never was Homesite or CF Studio for the Mac anyway. (I care because I''m a PC user who got a new job where everything is Mac...)

Comment 10 by SafariTECH posted on 8/3/2017 at 9:29 PM

I saw this thread show up when I was searching for CF Studio 5. I STILL use CF Studio 5 for hand-coding all my websites, and I've never really liked any of its replacements.

I'm in the midst of switching computers now, and have misplaced all my old developer software, including CF Studio 5 ... any chance you know of someone with a copy I could get?

I will use other alternatives if I have to, but this software was just really nice to work with.

Comment 11 (In reply to #10) by Raymond Camden posted on 8/3/2017 at 10:16 PM

Sorry no.

Comment 12 (In reply to #10) by Tony Mason posted on 9/17/2019 at 2:34 PM

I can trump that. I'm still using CF Studio 3. Daily.