Adobe Developer Connection Presents: Adobe Platform Evangelist Piotr Walczyszyn demonstrates the new theming capabilities in Flash Builder 4 and the new features of the CSS engine that come with Flex 4.
This is the first of 4 videos which teaches you how to create CRUD data base system in Flash Builder.
Some of the main concepts in this video series include:
The rest of the videos are also available…
Adobe Product Manager Tim Buntel demonstrates how to enable paging large record-sets automatically with Flash Builder and ColdFusion, and how the new network monitor can analyze network traffic.
Specifically, this video demonstrates how Flash Builder chunks large amounts of data into pages so that only a set amount of items are shown on each page. For example, if I had a database with 400 rows, I wouldn’t want to show all 400 items at the same time. Flash Builder now makes it easier to divide each page or list to say… 20 or 40 results per page.
Flash Builder also has a network monitoring capability that analyzes network traffic and compares how information is passed from a network. This is vital with record-sets because a developer can determine how much information to be on each page depending on the speed of the network and the resources available.
Adobe Senior Technology Evangelist Duane Nickull works with the new web services wizards in Flash Builder 4, showing how to bind a web service to a visual component.
Specifically, this video demonstrates how Flash Builder can easily hook up to even a complex web service using SOAP. The service demoed is a collection of countries and population statistics.
The Flash Builder application begins with a comboBox with a dataProvider created from the getCountries() function of the service. This will populate the comboBox with the available countries from the web service. All of this is done without writing a single line of code.
Duane then continues to create a details form that retrieves the population of the selected country from the comboBox. Even at this point, the ActionScript 3.0 required is minimal. The only functions generated are a creationComplete and changeHandler that retrieve data from the service and listen for changes in the comboBox selection and change the data in the form.
Overall, the main idea behind this video is to demonstrate how simple it is to retrieve data from even a complex service. Definitely a major improvement in productivity for anyone trying to create a dynamic application.
Adobes Tom Lane walks you through the mechanics of connecting a Flex application to a PHP data service with Flash Builder 4.
This is the second part of a two part series on creating a service using Flash Builder and a PHP server. In this video, Tom shows viewers how to
In order to grasp the concepts in both videos, a moderate understanding coding is recommended.
To watch the first video, click here.
