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Adobe Releases AIR 1.0 and Flex 3.0 - Continues Move to Open Source
12 months after the initial SDK alpha of AIR, Adobe has released Flex 3.0 and the 1.0 version of AIR (the Adobe Integrated Runtime). Adobe is also continuing the open sourcing of Flex with the availability of a SVN repository of the Flex API.
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VB 6 to VB.NET Migration Proceeds Ever So Slowly
Six years after VB.NET was released, Microsoft is still slowly working towards a true migration path for VB 6 applications. Recently Microsoft released "Visual Basic Power Packs 3.0". This release adds the Data Repeater, an important control for layouts.
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Scott Guthrie outlines the .NET 3.5 Client Roadmap
Scott Guthrie recently outlined some of the changes developers can expect when building .NET 3.5 Windows Client applications. These changes will be released over the next few months.
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Assigning File Types to ClickOnce Applications
With .NET 3.5, it is now possible to associate up to eight file types with a ClickOnce application.
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Glimmer - using JRuby and SWT for Eclipse RCP apps
Glimmer is a library for building GUIs with JRuby and SWT. Using the Builder idiom, it allows to define GUIs very quickly, but also permits to access SWT APIs directly. Glimmer was recently proposed as an official Eclipse project, so we caught up with Andy Maleh to talk about the project.
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Third Party Tools Support For Flex & Flash Development
As interest in the Flex development platform grows, the industry is responding with additional tools support, giving developers options beyond the Adobe Flex Builder IDE.
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Tasktop: Bringing Mylyn's Task-Focused Interface to Everyone
Tasktop Technologies, the company which created Eclipse Mylyn and leads its development, released Tasktop version 1.0 today. InfoQ interviewed Tasktop CEO Mik Kersten to learn more about this release and how it brings Mylyn's task-focused interface to a much larger audience.
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Granite Data Services: Open Source Flex DS Alternative
Granite Data Services (GDS) is an open source alternative to Adobe’s LiveCycle Data Services and the recently open sourced Blaze Data Services. Last week, GDS reached production status with their 1.0 release. GDS is available under the LGPL license. InfoQ.com spoke with the GDS project founder, Franck Wolff, to learn more about the open source project.
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FlexSpy: Component Inspection for Adobe Flex
Brian Deitte explains how FlexSpy, a component inspection tool for Flex, helps the time-consuming process of fine-tuning Flex layouts.
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FlexReport For Printing In Adobe Flex
Rob Rusher, a Flex developer and enthusiast, points us to FlexReport. Poor printing support in Flash is a common problem for Flex applications.
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Adobe AIR 1.0 - Native OS Integration Problem
A frequent criticism of the Adobe AIR platform is that it lacks support for native OS integration, which is typically essential when building desktop applications. With the AIR 1.0 release coming soon, Mike Chambers of Adobe published a proof of concept last week that demonstrates how developers can work around this problem.
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Adobe Flex Basics
InfoQ.com has covered a number of advanced and intermediate topics on the who, how, and whys of the Adobe Flex development framework, including: Who Is Using Flex, Flex Misconceptions, The Proprietary Nature of Flash, and Open Source Flex Frameworks. Ted Patrick, a Technical Evangelist for Adobe, takes us back to the basics with his blog post, ‘What is Flex?’
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Mike Hankey on Clipboard Programming
One of the corner-stones of Windows is the universal clipboard. Every well-designed application is expected to have at least minimal clipboard support and many are quite sophisticated. Yet the .NET framework doesn't expose all of its functionality directly, making it a mystery to most developers. Mike Hankey seeks to bring it to light with The Code Project article ClipSpy+.
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Is the Proprietary Nature of the Flash Player Keeping You From Using Flex?
Per Olesen published a blog recently entitled, Flash is Still Closed Source and Proprietary Technology, where he argues that Flash is still a proprietary platform.
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Open Source Flex Development Frameworks Show that Platform is Gaining Momentum
A number of open source development frameworks have sprouted up around Adobe Flex. InfoQ took a moment to identify a few of the major ones.