Dreamweaver Login Wizard for Coldfusion 8

Hello,
I have just installed Coldfusion 8 and Adobe CS 3 (in that
order). I am goign through the documentation and it talks about the
Login Wizard extension for Dreamweaver. I have opened the samples,
made sure I had an active database connection, but still no Login
Wizard. What am I missing?
thanks,
mitch

MitchDW wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have just installed Coldfusion 8 and Adobe CS 3 (in
that order). I am goign
> through the documentation and it talks about the Login
Wizard extension for
> Dreamweaver. I have opened the samples, made sure I had
an active database
> connection, but still no Login Wizard. What am I
missing?
>
> thanks,
> mitch
>
1) did you also install cf8 dw extensions? you can download
those from
adobe website.
2) did you enable RDS during the cf installation?
3) the login wizard is located under menu Commands -
Coldfusion Login
Wizard. have you been looking in the right spot?
Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

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