Question

This might sound very very basic 101 type question, but I really need help on this. I am a .net background developer, and recently received an existing project’s code which is in ColdFusion. I want to open this existing code in CF Builder.

I installed prequisites like ColdFusion developer edition and ColdFusion builder. In visual studio, we do this thing either by double click on the csproj file in the explorer or from File > Open menu and selecting project. In CF Builder I don’t see that option at all. In the code there are files with CFM and CFC extension, Two LCK files. In the builder, there is no Open Project option (There is one inside Project menu but that’s always disabled) . I also tried Import project but no luck. Any help? I am using CF Builder 2 trial version.

Answer 1

You should be able to import your project with the following steps:

1. File -> Import
2. Other -> Existing Folder as New Project
3. Select the folder and provide a project name (this is internal to the IDE only)
4. Let CFBuilder do it’s thing importing
5. Once imported, the new project will appear in your Project View
6. Right click on the project folder in this view and select Apply CF Nature

That should have your CFML project imported into the IDE and ‘tagged’ as a CFML project.