Flex Component Kit Alpha for Flex 2.0.1
The Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 allows you to create interactive, animated content in Flash, and use it in Flex as a Flex component. This is an Alpha version that was built for Flex 2.0.1. The final version will be included as part of the Flex 3 SDK. You can watch the presentation at http://adobedev.adobe.acrobat.com/p75214263/ to learn more about the component kit. It includes the steps required to prepare your Flash content for Flex, and examples of various interaction possibilities…. Components here

Flex Components
Check out Tour de Flex – an AIR application that contains samples for the most popular components available to Flash Platform developers.
Components are the building blocks of the Flex framework. With them you are able to prototype, build and deploy your applications in record time.
The open source Flex framework includes a robust set of components and containers right out of the box. On top of the components that come with the Flex framework, there are a number of commercial components available, as well as community components available.

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COMPONENT DESCRIPTIONS
Flex Builder 3 integration
For a productive design-time experience, ILOG Elixir is tightly integrated with Adobe Flex Builder™ 3 software. Using a component of Elixir is easy; just drag and drop it into place and set its properties from within your Flex Builder development environment.

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A common hurdle a developer may face is dealing with exceptions in BlazeDS. When an exception is thrown in Java, how do we handle this in flex? Here is a simple and flexible approach inspired by Scott Morgan.
1. Create a Java Class that extends RuntimeException.
package com.flexpasta.exception;
public class FlexException extends RuntimeException
{
public FlexException(String message)
{
super(message);
}
}
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Learn Flex
Flex3.info provides inspiration Showcase of Flex Applications and resources to designers and developers working with Flex technologies. The site offers a variety of themes and skins to turn vanilla Flex and AIR applications into custom visual experiences.

Catch some of the latest Flex and AIR applications on Flex.org. Go there

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