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Adobe has released Adobe Flex Component Kit for Adobe Flash CS3 to create Flex controls, containers, skins, Icons, Interactivities, and other assets in Flash CS3 Professional. Users can then import those assets into their Flex application. According to Flex Documentation Team the documentation that is currently shipping with Flex Builder does not contain the information on how to create Flex containers. However they have provided an article to provide documentation update.

Download the PDF: Importing Flash CS3 Assets into Flex

As a RIA developer we often encountered this situation where we need to choose in between Adobe Flash or Adobe Flex for a project. You have a large project with versatile requirements, lots of interactive elements to it and the target format is Shockwave Flash Format (SWF). Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex both are used in same paradigm with slight difference of usability. The approach to this would be to identify the nature of the project and demanded timeframe. (more…)

The Adobe™ Flash™ Ajax Video (FAVideo) component is a small, open source Flash component that you can use to provide video playback within an Ajax application. It exposes all of the formatting and video playback controls necessary to build a video player customized entirely using HTML and Javascript.

* One line instantiation makes it trivial to integrate video playback within an HTML and Javascript interface.
* Simple APIs provide the ability to manipulate video size, position, and scaling prior to or during video playback.
* Video playback parameters such as playback, video seek, cue points, and audio control allow sophisticated programmatic integration with Ajax applications.

Download Flash-Ajax Video Component

 Adobe has launched a new online seminar to facilitate access to the mobile market and build the reference worldwide Flash® Lite™ catalog for content providers.

URL: What you need to know to sell your content to mobile businesses

Salesforce.com and Adobe announced this week the Flex Toolkit for Apex(SalesForce SaaS app) which allows Flex-driven Flash applications to be integrated into Salesforce apps. is a great news for rich Internet application application developers and now their apps can deliver information through an on-demand enterprise platform.

Third-party Flex applications are packaged-up and served from the Salesforce servers and so no additional infrastructure is needed. The toolkit shares the same single sign-on as the a regular Salesforce app which makes the experience more seamless.

Salesforce also released documentation and guidelines for developers.

Hmmm this seems a great combination as recently salesforce tied up with Google Gears and now with flex to leverage the real essence of Web2.0.

his toolkit also supports the current alpha 1 release of Adobe’s Apollo.

Download the Flex toolkit for Apex

Adobe® has released MXP extension for DreamWeaver for suporting Adobe Integrated Runtime Application development. This extension allows you to desing AIR apps in dreamweaver environment.
The Adobe® Integrated Runtime (AIR) Extension for Dreamweaver® beta 1 will also allows you to package and preview .air application files directly within Adobe Dreamweaver CS3–leveraging your existing web development skills to build desktop-enabled distributed applications and experiences with the Adobe AIR framework.

Download the Adobe AIR Extension for Dreamweaver (MXP, 25 MB)

Even the best search engine would insist that in order to succeed at comptia a+ or even ccna, it is important that in addition to itil certification, one should go for mcse certification as well.

Adobe Flex Documentation team has released the missed out documentation for Flex charting  shipped with Flex 3.

Flex 3 charting documentation deals about:

Displaying Data and Labels
“Using data labels”
“Using per-item fills”
“Omitting days on a DateTimeAxis” (aka, work-week axis)

Download Charting Documentation

I don’t know how much you have faced this problem and were unable to figure out the way to do it. Today I had this problem and I found the solution and wanna share this with all of you. So here it is,

My problem was after uploading data to a server via Flex i.e. FileReference.upload,  there was no way to receive data back from the server in response to your upload. A common requirement. e.g. Upload a file for processing, server returns results (typically status).

Solution: Add a listener on your FileReference object: (Make sure you have flash player build version greater than 9.0.28). To check this right click on the Flash application opened in Bowser and choose about.

fileReference.addEventListener(DataEvent.UPLOAD_COMPLETE_DATA, responseHandler);

private function responseHandler( event:DataEvent ) :void
{
var response:XML = XML( event.data );
Alert.show(response.toString())
}

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