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Thanks and Regards Shashank Kulkarni(09822576796), Flex Developer, Symphony services,Pune. Check out some Cool Stufs : http://shashankkulkarni.wordpress.com/ "Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward" On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Jagadish M <[email protected]> wrote: > Until recently Flex developers had the option of using the free, open > source SDK > <http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK>(together with a > text editor of choice) or purchasing Flex > Builder <http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/features/flex_builder/>, > Adobe’s Eclipse-based IDE for building, debugging, profiling and deploying > Flex applications. > > The momentum behind Flex and the ever-growing community of developers > coming at Flex from different backgrounds means that there is increasing > demand for a range of tooling options, some provided by Adobe and some > provided by third parties. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve seen > JetBrains<http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2008/02/creating-flex-applications-with-intellij-idea/>announce > Flex support in IntelliJ, and for .NET developers, > Ensemble <http://www.ensemble.com/products/tofino.html> and > SapphireSteel<http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Adobe-Flex-In-Visual-Studio>have > both released early versions of Flex plug-ins for Visual Studio 2008. > > You might think that competition for Flex Builder would be concerning to > Adobe, but in fact we see it as great validation of the Flash Platform that > others want to invest the time/effort required to create alternative > developer tools. As the number of developers adopting Flex continues to grow > there will be different sets of requirements and priorities for IDE features > - with a range of tools in the marketplace, there will be plenty of room for > diversification and innovation in tooling to deliver the features demanded > by Flex developers. > > [image: SaphireSteel Amethyst]In particular, I’m really excited to see the > development of Ensemble > Tofino<http://www.ensemble.com/products/tofino.html>and SapphireSteel > Amethyst <http://www.sapphiresteel.com/Adobe-Flex-In-Visual-Studio>, as > one of biggest concerns I continue to hear from .NET developers is that to > develop in Flex they have to have to swap between Visual Studio and Flex > Builder. Both these tools install as a plug-in to Visual Studio 2008 and, > from the information currently available, plan on providing .NET developers > with MXML/ActionScript code editing features, application compilation & > debugging and Visual Studio project integration in a freely available > version. > > > > SapphireSteel, with existing experience in developing a Ruby development > plug-in for Visual Studio, have gone further and announced their intention > to build a professional, paid-for, edition of their tool. Amethyst > Professional, which is due to ship in the 2nd quarter of 2009, will expand > on the features in their free version to add an integrated visual designer, > interactive debugging experience and full IntelliSense support - making it > much closer to Flex Builder in terms of features. > > [image: Amethyst Professional - visual designer] > > Whilst Silverlight will remain an obvious choice for .NET developers, there > is even less reason now to wait for Microsoft to play catch-up on both > features and penetration of Silverlight, when Flex enables you to build a > Rich Internet Application that can be viewed on 98% of Internet-connected > computers without requiring the up-front installation of a browser plug-in. > Flex of course also gives you the option of deploying a desktop application > that works on Windows, Mac and Linux - something that Silverlight can’t do. > > At our recent developer conference, we also demonstrated an early version > of BlazeDS and AMF support for .NET - take a look at the current (Java) > implementation of > BlazeDS<http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS>to get an > sense for the data and messaging enhancements that this will bring > to RIA developers using Flex and .NET. More details on this soon… > http://flex.sys-con.com/node/782822 > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > > Jagan Mady's > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Flex India Community" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/flex_india?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
