It depends on your experience, you can actually create complete sites all within Umbraco, but as soon as you want to build more advanced functionality you will need visual studio. It is also useful for debugging your XSLT files as you can use VS to step through XSLT files which you cannot do directly within the Umbraco interface.
If you have never used Umbraco before it is a good idea to install one of the starter kits like Warren's package or the Runway package, both of these will install a simple website which you can then see how they are built using Umbraco's document types and XSLT files.
You are very helpful! I'm totally a newbie in Umbraco, so I've already installed the runway package. I intend to use VS 2008 (after all of the advice above) and I hope that everything will work fine!
Recommended version of Visual Studio for umbraco
Hello!
I'm a newbie in Umbraco and I wonder which is the most recommended version of visual studio for umbraco? 2005 professional or 2008?
Hi,
You can use either but I would recommend using VS 2008 as it's a better tool.
Cheers,
Chris
Hi Elena,
Go for 2008, as umbraco goes full .net 3.5 (which vs.net 2005 does not support.) from version v4.1
(Btw, you don't really need vs.net to get started with umbraco)
Cheers,
/Dirk
Thank you both for your immediate answer!
Dirk, what would you recommend me to get started with umbraco? Is, for example, Umbraco Developertool 0.2 appropriate for getting started?
Cheers,
Elena
Hi Elena,
It depends on your experience, you can actually create complete sites all within Umbraco, but as soon as you want to build more advanced functionality you will need visual studio. It is also useful for debugging your XSLT files as you can use VS to step through XSLT files which you cannot do directly within the Umbraco interface.
If you have never used Umbraco before it is a good idea to install one of the starter kits like Warren's package or the Runway package, both of these will install a simple website which you can then see how they are built using Umbraco's document types and XSLT files.
Cheers,
Chris
You are very helpful! I'm totally a newbie in Umbraco, so I've already installed the runway package. I intend to use VS 2008 (after all of the advice above) and I hope that everything will work fine!
Thanks,
Elena
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