Adobe® Open Source Flex® 4 SDK

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March 2010

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Welcome to Open Source Flex SDK.

Contents


Getting Started

For information on getting started with the Flex SDK explore the new feature descriptions, documentation, and samples available at the Flex Help and Support page and review the Flex SDK Release Notes.

The Open Source Flex SDK does not contain some elements that can enhance the Flex development experience such as, debug versions of the Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, or advanced font encoding libraries. You may download the Adobe Add-ons package that contains these elements from Adobe Open Source Flex.


Flex Documentation

Flex documentation, including Release Notes, is available from the Flex Help and Support page and the Flex Developer Center.

Using Adobe Flex 4 Describes application development basics, such as MXML and ActionScript syntax, creating applications, using Flex components, the Flex data model, error handling, and Flex Advanced Data Visualization Components. Also contains information on custom component creation, data visualization tools, Flex charting components, automation, and application deployment.
Accessing Data with Adobe Flex 4 Provides information on using Flash Builder data wizards to create data-centric Flex applications. Also includes information on accessing data using RPC services and web services.
Using Flash Bulider 4 Provides information on using Adobe Flash Builder 4 to create Flex applications.
ActionScript 3.0 Reference for the Adobe Flash Platform Describes the MXML and ActionScript 3.0 programming interfaces, including the API reference for core ActionScript language elements (HTML-only).

Flex Samples

Download Flex samples from the Flex Developer Center.


Community Resources

You can access the Flex community and online resources from the following pages:


License

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