ColdFusion Builder 2 To Have 'Express Edition'

Posted By : todd sharp Posted At : April 27, 2011 9:37 AM Posted In: CF Builder, ColdFusion

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This one is sure to be a game changer. Here's more info:

When you start ColdFusion Builder, you are prompted to enter the product serial number. When you enter a valid product serial number, activation happens in the background the first time the software detects an Internet connection.

If you do not enter the product serial number when you start ColdFusion Builder, you can use the trial version of the full-featured ColdFusion Builder 2.0 for 60 days. After the trial expires, you need to purchase a license to continue using all the features. If not, ColdFusion Builder switches to a feature-limited Express Edition.

With the Express Edition, you can continue to use ColdFusion Builder with basic features such as editor, code assist, and syntax highlighting. But the key features such as code assist for extensions, code insight, extension callbacks, connection to remote server, quick fix, debugging remote projects, refactoring, ColdFusion search, code formatting, FTP support, log viewer, local file browser, code hyperlinks, and hover help are not available in the Express Edition of ColdFusion Builder. You can convert the Express Edition to a full-featured version by purchasing the license and specifying the product serial number.

You're going to miss out on some seriously powerful features if you don't purchase a license, but this essentially means there will be a free lightweight IDE for ColdFusion. This is truly amazing news!

Comments (16)

Mark Drew's Gravatar I am sure there was a Free (and Open Source) ColdFusion IDE out there, if only I could remember it's name... I am sure it had CF in it somewhere...

... it's on the tip of my tongue...

Dammit... I forgot.

todd sharp's Gravatar I'd consider CFEclipse a feature complete IDE comparable to the full edition of CFBuilder. I meant no spite in that statement - only meant exactly what I said: free, lightweight IDE. Sorry if you took it any other way sir :)

Mark Drew's Gravatar Well:
"but this essentially means there will be a free lightweight IDE for ColdFusion"

could have been written as:

"but this essentially means there will be another free lightweight IDE for ColdFusion"

todd sharp's Gravatar It could have, but that's not my opinion and that's not what I meant. I don't consider CFEclipse lightweight -- as I said earlier CFE has a lot of the features that are disabled in Express Edition so I don't see them on equal ground (Express vs. CFE).

We can agree to disagree :)

Mark Drew's Gravatar Fair point!

Back to my coffee and JavaScript!

Dave Ferguson's Gravatar Ok.. simmer down kids... You are both pretty.

bigmonkeyfish's Gravatar They are both nice

Larry C. Lyons's Gravatar Considering that CFBuilder sits on top of Aptana and Ecplispe, I cannot see how even an Express Edition can be considered lightweight. To me lightweight means something like Notepad++ with the ColdFusion plugin.

cfrogue's Gravatar They mean lightweight as in stripped down. As far as I'm concerned it should be called Coldfusion Builder Zero edition. Taking out FTP makes this version a waste of bandwidth.

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