When it comes to creating a website, the question of finding a suitable application to develop the site pops up almost at the outset. Inevitably, the choice always lies between Microsoft Visual Studio and Adobe Dreamweaver. While the latter is more popular, Visual Studio is no slouch when it comes to developing a site.

Always under the stigma of being a Microsoft product (meaning that it will always have bugs), Visual Studio has managed to gain some respect for the features it offers. It is an easy-to-use program, which utilizes a Drag and Drop interface and offers many examples as well as extensive Help features. It also offers immense control over servers and HTML servers. If creating and managing console, window and web applications is your requirement, then Visual Studio is the right tool for you as it is better equipped for Web Development.

Dreamweaver, on the other hand, is excellent at Web Design. Unlike Visual Studio, Dreamweaver can work with many operating systems and is far superior at interfacing with JavaScript. Dreamweaver is also more adept at handling teamwork, as its design facilitates its use in projects where multiple teams work on handling different parts of the project.

Visual Studio can also do this but requires other support applications from Microsoft. Dreamweaver also features many of the common Adobe functions like Layers and Tables, which makes manipulation easy.

In conclusion, both products are good at what they do. However, what they do is where the difference lies. So, the choice between them should really be decided based on the requirements of the project.