Being a .NET programmer, I use VS.NET and Dreamweaver for most of my needs. I work strictly in code view, but I like the intellisense/autocomplete and code highlighting that both offer. It makes easy work on my eyes.

Does Notepad2 have an ftp client and ASP.NET intellisense addins yet?

Now does anyone like MS Expressions?

Edit: To be fair, I do have a bias against Microsoft

you might need something to upload your files
http://filezilla-project.org/
or
http://www.smartftp.com/
I think dreamweaver can do it too!

I use dreamweaver cs3 for all my development work. Its pretty consistent in design view. Even though I am a .NET guy I hate Visual Studio, and Expressions. Microsoft is pissing me off with their naming schemes. They take the same piece of software and then rename it 5 different things, just taking out a few features in each. If you like .NET DO NOT GET dreamweaver cs4. They dropped asp.net support in it.

what?!

yeah that was my reaction too. What is weird is that it will color your syntax like it used to in asp.net, but your asp.net menu bar is gone. meaning you can't insert any controls.

That just sucks for people that used those. To be quite honest, I don't use the clicky features in DW at all. Maybe I'm totally and completely underutilizing the app, but I really only use it for the built in FTP, syntax highlighting, and code autocompletion. Aside from that there's really not much that I look for or expect out of DW. And even thought I could possibly find something that does all of that and costs less, I haven't looked.

Dreamweaver still has color syntaxing, but they don't have the ASP.NET control panels ( buttons, textboxes, Forms ). If you live in code view then its not a big deal, but for anyone that likes these features you might want to stick to dreamweaver CS3

I agree with the idea that we should encourage hand coding at first, and only moving on to the larger IDEs once you have a solid understanding of the underlying technologies. If not you run the risk of plugging code into your website without fulling understanding the implications of doing so.

That being said, I program small scripts with a regular text editor (If you can call Vi that, I can ).

Any thing large I manage with Eclipse!

http://www.eclipse.org/pdt/

Eclipse's architecture is extensible, so it has plugins for virtually any thing you can think of. Oh and did I mention it's free and open source?