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Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers (Solutions)

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by: Marco Casario

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9781590598764
ISBN: 1590598768
Label: friends of ED
Manufacturer: friends of ED
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 904
Publication Date: November 26, 2007
Publisher: friends of ED
Sales Rank: 364472
Studio: friends of ED

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Flex is the quickest and most effective technology for the creation of Rich Internet Applications for the Web. Its extensive library of components and totally customizable framework, combined with the ubiquity of Flash Player, has guaranteed its success.

The ecosystem of products that rotate around Flex 2 and Flex 3 is really broad. Flex Builder, Flex SDK, and Charting Components are all essential parts of the technology that fit the different requirements of web development.

This enormous set of possibilities can easily lead to overload for developers like you. Theres just too much to learn and too many potential places to go when you hit a brick wall. Wouldnt it be nice to have a library of solutions to solve these problems quickly and easily?

This book provides just that, with more than 100 solutions to common problems in one handy volume.

Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3 Developers faces problems and provides solutions that can be applied to any project, from the most simple to the most complex. The solutions range from customizing Flex components with ActionScript 3.0, using the data models and the ActionScript classes as Value objects, validating and formatting data, using RPC classes to access remote data, to optimizing data-exchange performance using AMF3.

Solutions are also provided for enhancing the security of Flex applications; and techniques are offered for optimizing the actual work environment by increasing the performance of Flex Builder, adding video content, and creating an AIR project to bring your web application onto the desktop.

If you want to learn about and start to develop RIAs in a short time, being immediately productive and mastering the Flex development techniques, Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers is the book you need.

In this book you'll:

Discover real-world solutions for everyday Flex development, saving hours of development time.
Learn how to customize and extend the Flex Components Model and design and program the look and feel of your Flex applications.
Learn best practices and tips from a Flex expert for structuring the architecture of Flex applications.
Use the Flex Remote Procedure Classes to connect to remote data with HTTPServices and the Java Platform, PHP, ColdFusion, WebServices, and RemoteObject.
Use the new Flex 3 features, such as the AdvancedDataGrid component and the Charting Enhancements feature.
Port your Rich Internet Applications onto the desktop with Adobe AIR.

What youll learn

Tips on using Flex components
How to validate and format data
How to manage complex data
Filtering, sorting and using cursors on data with collection classes
How to consume Web Services using RPC components
How to display data using list-based controls
How to effectively compile and deploy Flex applications
How to customize the look and feel of your applications
How to make your applications more secure
How to become more efficient in using the Flex Builder IDE
Unique tricks such as calculating memory usage, making your Flex application into an active desktop, and customizing states
How to use the ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder
How to interface your Flex applications with server-side code written in PHP, Java, Rails, and ColdFusion
Working with Flex in enterprise enviroment using the Flex Data Services, Java Remote Object and AMFPHP

Who is this book for?

This book is for any Flex 2 or Flex 3 developer who is comfortable with the basics and wants to take their knowledge further with quick fire solutions to common problems. Please note that some of the solutions contained in this book require the Flex Builder 3 Professional release of the software.

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- Bugs and bad practices
This book mostly takes the reader through lab exercises, creating code in MXML and ActionScript. I have two issues with this book. (1) the sample code is riddled with bugs, typos, etc. You can get the "working" code from the website but cross-checking the book code is tedious. (2) many of the examples didn't exactly exhibit best practices. As a Java/JEE developer I'm not sure I would structure MXML/ActionScript in the way that the author did. Implementing best-practices can also lead to best ... Read More

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- I would reccomend
I would recommend this book. It may be a little bit of a battle for new comers sense it doesn't start easy and build up to intermediate. But it is an awesome book for anyone who is serious about learning Flex. I've read some of the reviews here about the code mistakes in the book and well, there are some and that's the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars. But given the magnitude of this book, the tremendous knowledge the author is sharing in it, I would still strongly recommend to anyone pondering ... Read More

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- Good Stuff!!!

I recently had the opportunity to go back and learn more about Adobe Flex. I will be using Flex to complete my senior project in December. I need to get up to speed rather quickly and this is one of the books I felt could help me going forward.
The book is divided into fourteen chapters. The first two deal with Flex essentials and components. The next four cover working with data. This includes working data models to remote data using RPC classes. Those chapters are followed by ... Read More

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- Great Flex Solutions Book
Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers by Marco Casario is a must have book. Why? Many simple, objective code snippets from which one can build many useful Flex applications. The simplicity of code examples can be also easily extended in real projects. The book is devided into problem oriented parts: Flex Basics, Using Components, Working with Data, Validating and Formatting Data, Managing Complex Data, Working with Remote Data, Compiling and Deploying Flex Applications, Designing ... Read More

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- Flex Solutions eval.
I like the book and would recommend it. Although there were some slight modifications to the way you build applications in Flex 2 and Flex 3. The book covers a broad range of projects.

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