Silent Installation and activation of ColdFusion Builder

Silent Installation

You can install ColdFusion Builder silently, without any user interaction. The following TechNote provides details of how to install ColdFusion Builder silently:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/875/cpsid_87547.html

Product Activation

Product activation as part of silent installation is not supported for ColdFusion Builder. Activation has to be done after installation, by specifying the serial key, when you launch ColdFusion Builder for the first time.

Note: The TechNote had the information on product activation missing. But now it is updated.

Hot Fix available for ColdFusion Builder 2

ColdFusion Builder 2 users can download and install the Hot Fix 1, that can help improve ColdFusion Builder Search experience. The details are available in the TechNote available at the following URL:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/911/cpsid_91140.html

Note that the hot fix applies only to ColdFusion Builder 2 and not the previous release.

ColdFusion Builder 2 Documentation and Related Resources

Storm (code name of ColdFusion Builder 2) is out the door; ColdFusion Builder 2 is now available.

If you are searching for documentation and other resources that can help you get started with this Eclipse-based integrated development environments (IDE), this is the one stop location:

Documentation

• ColdFusion Builder 2 Release Notes: Provides information on how to activate ColdFusion Builder, its new features, and the list of known issues.
• Installing Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2.0
• Using ColdFusion Builder 2.0

ColdFusion Developer Center Articles

• What's new in ColdFusion Builder 2: In this article, Ramchandra Kulkarni provides an overview of the ColdFusion Builder 2 features, to help you take full advantage of all the productivity tools provided in ColdFusion Builder 2.
• Getting started with ColdFusion Builder 2: In this Adobe TV video tutorial, Adobe Platform Evangelist Terry Ryan shows you how to use the newest features in ColdFusion Builder 2.

ColdFusion Builder Team Blog

• ColdFusion Builder: Provides latest news, updates, and other helpful information from the ColdFusion Builder team.

Movie Tutorials

• What's new with extensions in ColdFusion Builder 2: Raymond Camden presents several extensions he has created in ColdFusion Builder 2 that are powerful and effective coding time-savers. Watch the video tutorial and follow along with the transcript and source files provided in this article.
• QuickFix feature in ColdFusion Builder 2: Learn about the smart functionality in ColdFusion Editor which helps you generate methods, CFC/CFM files based on their usage in code. You can quickly complete your code statements, revisit, and resolve the problem components making the coding process much simpler.
• Editor Enhancements in ColdFusion Builder 2: Walks you through the editor enhancements in the release.
• Set up a project and configure webserver in ColdFusion Builder
• Debug ColdFusion applications using ColdFusion Builder

 Blogs on specific features

Getting started experience

• ColdFusion Builder Start Page: ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sandeep Paliwal elaborates on the getting started experience.

Express edition

• ColdFusion Builder 2.0 Express Edition: Ben Forta's notes on the free lightweight version of ColdFusion Builder.

Extension enhancements

• ColdFusion Builder 2 Extensions - Understanding Callback Commands: ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sandeep Paliwal explains the possibilities of callback commands in ColdFusion Builder 2 extensions.
• How to contribute to code assist from extensions: ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sandeep Paliwal provides answers to the frequently asked questions about contributing to Code Assist using extensions.
• What's new with extensions in ColdFusion Builder 2: Raymond Camden presents several extensions he has created in ColdFusion Builder 2 that are powerful and effective coding time-savers. Watch the video tutorial and follow along with the transcript and source files provided in this article.

Quick Fix

• Quick Fix in ColdFusion Builder: 
• ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sagar Ganatra demonstrates the usage of Quick Fix.
• QuickFix feature in ColdFusion Builder 2: Learn about the smart functionality in ColdFusion Editor which helps you generate methods, CFC/CFM files based on their usage in code. You can quickly complete your code statements, revisit, and resolve the problem components making the coding process much simpler.

ColdFusion Builder Search

• ColdFusion Builder Search\Replace: ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sagar Ganatra explains the features of ColdFusion Builder search.
• Tag search: ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sagar Ganatra explains how to find tags that match your search criteria.

 Key-board shortcuts

• A cheat sheet of keyboard shortcuts in ColdFusion Builder: ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sagar Ganatra lists all the shortcuts in ColdFusion Builder. 
• ColdFusion Search vs Eclipse Search: 
  ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Kiran Sakhare provides a comparison between Eclipse Search and ColdFusion Builder search.
• Keyboard shortcuts in ColdFusion Builder: 
  ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sagar Ganatra explains the keyboard shortcut enhancements in ColdFusion Builder 2.

Code Formatting

• CFML Code Formatter – An Introduction: ColdFusion Builder engineering team member Sandeep Paliwal explains how to enforce coding guidelines using CFML Code Formatter.