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March 20, 2006
Check Out the Flex 2 Style Explorer for Beta 2!
To coincide with the release of Flex 2.0 Beta 2, we've posted an updated version of the Flex 2.0 Style Explorer. The first version was posted just about a week ago, but this is the first time I've gotten a chance to check it out, and it's really cool! So what took me so long? Well unfortunately, when it was released, I had long moved off of Beta 1 and on to Beta 2 builds, so I wasn't able to run it. Now that Beta 2 is out, we're all on the same version and so I'm able to see it in action.
CSS support in Flex is really powerful and the app does a great job of allowing you to experiment and see the results instantly. What's especially great is that it gives you the CSS block that you can copy into your own app.
Of course, you probably know this already as you ran it a week ago, but if not, check it out here. Enjoy!
Posted by Mark Anders at 09:20 PM | Comments (0)
Flex Beta 2 Available Now
Beta 2 of all of the Flex 2.0 products is available for download at Adobe Labs. Enjoy!Posted by Mark Anders at 09:07 PM | Comments (0)
March 08, 2006
Using Flex and AJAX Together With FABridge
Ely Greenfield posted a great piece on how AJAX and Flex can easily be used together in a seamless manner. You can check out his article here. The secret is a new technology Ely developed called the Flex AJAX Bridge, which is a library that enables you to easily call into Flex from JavaScript in an HTML page, or to call into JavaScript code from ActionScript from the Flash Player. You can download FABridge from Adobe Labs.This is Ely's first blog post, and his site Quietly Scheming should be an interesting one to watch. Ely is one of the lead architects on Flex and has lots of in-depth knowledge of the framework, and often whips up cool stuff like FABridge. Enjoy!
Posted by Mark Anders at 06:38 AM | Comments (0)
March 01, 2006
Actionscript 3.0 Libraries and FlexUnit Released on Adobe Labs!
There is a great set of resources for Flex 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 posted to Adobe Labs. You can access them here. There are a number of really useful ActionScript 3.0 libraries that allow you to interact with services such as Flickr, Mapper, Odeo and YouTube, as well as ones to deal with RSS and Atom. Additionally, there's a "core" library that has lots of useful stuff such as MD5 hashing, JSON serialization and more.
One of the most important things, from my perspective, is FlexUnit. Over the past year, a lot of people interested in Flex Builder have asked us if it included a unit test framework. Our response was that we would release one, and with the release of FlexUnit, we've delivered. Unit testing should be an important component of your development practice, and so I encourage everyone who's interested in Flex to download it.
Enjoy!
Posted by Mark Anders at 10:12 AM | Comments (1)