Getting Started with Flex 3: An Adobe Developer Library Pocket Guide for Developers (Pocket Reference

by Jack Herrington, Emily Kim

Discover how easy RIA development can be with this one-of-a-kind handbook from the Adobe Developer Library. Several clear, step-by-step mini-tutorials teach you about web services, event handling, designing user interfaces with reusable components, and more. After finishing this guide, you'll be able to build Flash applications ranging from widgets to full-featured RIAs using the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3.0. With Getting Started with Flex 3 , you You'll find complete code for video players, a slideshow, a chat client, and an RSS reader, just to name a few. You also get plenty of tips, tricks, and techniques to leverage your existing programming skills, whether you come from an open source or Visual Studio-intensive background.

148 pages, Paperback

First published June 24, 2008

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good way to get a flavor of what Flex can do, and has some good tutorials that will show you how to build a simple application. Serious developers will probably need another book to provide a more comprehensive language reference or more discusssion of advanced topics.

[Mohamed Alaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice just as a Start...