Flex 3 Cookbook

The Adobe Developer Library Guide for Rich Internet Application Developers

The best way to showcase a powerful technology is to demonstrate its real-world effects, and that's exactly what this Cookbook does with Adobe Flex 3.

Wide-ranging and highly practical, Flex 3 Cookbook contains more than 300 tried-and-true recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. You'll find everything from Flex basics to solutions for working with visual components and data access to tips on application development, unit testing, and using Adobe AIR.

You'll also get ideas from the development community. At Adobe's Flex Cookbook web site (www. adobe.com/devnetf), developers were invited to post their own solutions for working with Flex 3; the best and most useful solutions are included in this book, as well as hundreds of original recipes from the authors.

Each recipe provides a solution to a common problem, explains how and why it works, and offers sample code that you can put to use immediately.

Topics include:

• Containers and dialogs
  
• Collections, arrays, and DataProviders
  
• Data-driven components
  
• DataBinding
  
• DataGrid and Advanced DataGrid
  
• Validation, formatting, and regular expressions
  
• ItemRenderers and editors
  
• Services and data access
  
• Images, bitmaps, videos, and sounds
  
• RSLs and Modules
  
• CSS, styling, and skinning
  
• Adobe AIR
  
• States and effects

Whether you're a committed Flex developer or still evaluating the technology, you'll get quick results with Flex 3 using these recipes. It's an ideal way to jumpstart your next web application.

About the Author
Joshua Noble is a development consultant with three years of experience in building enterprise level applications using Flex integrated with Java, Ruby, ColdFusion, and Microsoft .NET.

Todd Anderson is a Senior Software Developer in the Multimedia Platforms Group at Schematic Boston, and is co-author of *Adobe AIR Instant Results: Create - Modify - Reuse*, a Wrox/Wiley title scheduled for release in spring of 2008.