There is free evaluation version at http://commerce.allaire.com/download/

>Hi John,
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>May you post a link for Allaire's Homesite HTML Editor. I use Multiedit 8 as an HTML editor. It would be nice to try what you reccomend.
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>TIA, Igor.
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>>VID is essentially a dead product. It's feature set will be incorporated into VB and VC in the next version of Visual Studio..
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>>However, let us suppose for a moment that the above is not going to happen..
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>>VID is a pig. The idea is good - taking the event-driven programming model to the web. The execution of the idea - in a word - sucks. The Jscript code that gets created is both of bad quality and is extremely buggy. Ever try to debug a VID app? Sure, the theory of tracing though code exists. Getting it to work is another story. For 70 dollars (US), you can buy Allaire's Homesite HTML Editor and have a superior editor to what you will find in VID.
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>>Further, VID apps do not scale all that well. The whole idea behind the Design Time Controls - the very thing that is supposed to make VID easy to use - begins to crap out after 20 or so users. Again, the underlying code of DTC's is very poor.
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>>My advice...
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>>One option is go use Web Connect
>>Another is to be component based - and use script as glue. Here, you can use any editor you want - including home site.
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>>Good luck..
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>>>We are starting to look at Web enabling certain existing applications and all new applications and are starting to look at VID.
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>>>I would appreciate any comments and experiences people have had using VID to determine if this is a good direction to go or if we should be looking at something else. TIA