I largely prefer many of Visual Studio's (particularly 2005) features to FlexBuilder, though do like some of FlexBuilder/Eclipse's features as well.
Of course, the features I like most about Visual Studio don't seem to be intrinsic to the way it does things, more just that they don't exist in Flex Builder. For example, Visual Studio does some incredible Intellisense for C#... it basically suggests appropriate text (keywords, variable names, types, functions, etc.) with every keystroke. For folks with a lame memory like myself, it's great... it's also very conducive to using long, descriptive names for things since you don't end up having to type it all out constantly. It's also *very* smart about automatic formating of the code, and you can define all the rules that it applies as you type. In addition, there are some tools built into VS that need to be added to Flex (and sound like they may be to a degree with the data wizards in Flex 3), stuff like automatically generating classes from XML schemas, providing visual designers for schemas, etc. Troy. On 6/14/07, Mark Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes. My web services are all developed with Visual Studio, so to be able to have Flex and Web Services all in the same IDE would be great. Oh, and the obvious thing, Visual Studio is a much better IDE than Eclipse (in my personal opinion). Mark -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto: [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of sleekdigital Sent: 13 June 2007 19:09 To: [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: [flexcoders] The future of Flex IDE's Flex Builder is awesome, but does anyone else think it might be cool to see another Flex IDE built on top of this someday ? ... http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb510103.aspx :) -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links
