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Adobe Flex reaches out to .NET developers

By James Crowley, published on 17 Nov 2008

At the Adobe MAX conference today, Adobe Partner Ensemble, have announced a new plug-in that will enable .NET developers to create Flex front-ends for their applications from within Visual Studio 2008. This provides similar support that already exists within Flex Builder, the tool based on Eclipse, but offers a familar environment for .NET developers that might not otherwise reach to an Adobe tool. The product, Tofini, is available for free download now (as a beta), and will remain free when it reaches final release.

According to Ensemble, developers will benefit from the full debugging and editing capabilities of Visual Studio, allowing MXML and ActionScript code to be edited and compiled directly within the IDE - without having to step out to a seperate environment.

With the arrival of Silverlight last year, both Microsoft and Adobe are increasingly competing in the developer space, with Silverlight now running on the desktop (in competition with AIR) and planned Silverlight development support within Eclipse. This latest announcement means that Adobe appears to be taking serious steps to reach out to Microsoft's strong developer base, just as Microsoft begins the uphill struggle to convert Adobe Flash developers to their Silverlight platform.

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  1. Manjot Bawa
    11 Jun 2009 at 06:05

    http://bit.ly/izsu9

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    19 Feb 2009 at 02:46
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  3. Darin Boyd
    07 Jan 2009 at 19:11
    This is good news. I have Flex Builder and I love Eclipse, but I do most of my work in Visual Studio. It will be nice to have Flex capability there.
  4. ranganathan palanisamy
    28 Nov 2008 at 09:12
    Hi i m Ranganathan.P new one flex tool how to connect the sql data base connection using and connect pls help thnks for advance
  5. Ka Wai Cheung
    17 Nov 2008 at 15:46
    To add, there's a new web-based platform called X2O that rids the need of server-side programming in .NET altogether (http://www.x2oframework.com) for Flex and Flash CS4 apps. It lets you create data models over the Web and then generates a content management system, web services, and integrated AS3 SWC library (you don't even have to configure any services...it's all built into the SWC). This allows you to build database-driven Flex/Flash apps without any server-side programming or setup. Highly recommend .NET devs give it a shot. Site: http://www.x2oframework.com Docs: http://docs.x2oframework.com Blog: http://blog.x2oframework.com

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