Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4
Recently I came cross an excellent article, which gave a crash course in using Flash Builder 4 to develop Flex applications. With the permission of the original site (http://www.packtpub.com, author: Romin Irani), I post it on FlexTutorial.org. For the purpose of easy reading, I divided the original article into 4 parts. I hope this will provide first hand information to anyone interested in RIA (Rich Internet Application) development.
Find out more about this quick-start tutorial on Flex and Flash Builder 4
Posted by: Bryan Date: Friday, July 24, 2009 Comment: 1
Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4 – Part 4
Using Flash Builder Data Services
In this section, we will write the same application that we have written in part one. However this time we will not write the code ourselves instead we’ll let the Flash Builder generate the code for us. Flash Builder comes with powerful new features that ease integration with external services. It can auto generate client code that can invoke external services for us and bind the results to existing User Interface components.
Posted by: Bryan Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Be the first to comment
Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4 – Part 3
Yahoo! News Application
Let us write another application, we will call it the Yahoo! News Application. This application shows a list of current news items from Yahoo that has been classified as “most emailed“.
Yahoo! provides this list in the form of a RSS feed. The RSS feed for the same is: http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/mostemailed.
Let us first look at the application when it is all ready so that we can understand what we are trying to build.
Posted by: Bryan Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Be the first to comment
Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4 – Part 2
Hello World using Flash Builder 4
In this section, we will be developing a basic Hello World application. While the application does not do much, it will help you get comfortable with the Flash Builder IDE.
Launch the Flash Builder IDE. We will be creating a Flex Project. Flash Builder will help us create the Project that will contain all our files.
Posted by: Bryan Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Be the first to comment
Flex 101 with Flash Builder 4 – Part 1
The article is intended towards developers who have never used Flex before and would like to exercise a “Hello World” kind of tutorial. The article does not aim to cover Flex and FB4 in detail but rather focuses on the mechanics of FB4 and getting an application running with minimal effort.
For developers familiar with Flex and the predecessor to Flash Builder 4 (Flex Builder 2 or 3), it contains an introduction to FB4 and some differences in the way you go about building Flex Applications using FB4.
Posted by: Bryan Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 Comment: 1
