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A New Public Beta of Flex 3 Is Available

Adobe has announced availability of Beta 2 of Flex 3
By Flex News Desk
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October 1, 2007 12:00 PM EDT
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Today, at Max 2007, Adobe has announced availability and the list of new features of  the second public beta release of Flex 3 SDK and Flex Builder 3. Below is a quote of this announcement:

"Check out these important new features in Flex 3 beta 2:

  • New wizard support for .NET
    New wizards for auto generating applications
  • Web service introspection
    Introspect WSDL files and automatically generate connection code for invoking web services
  • Major improvements to performance and memory profilers
    Investigate memory usage and analyze where your application is spending its time

In addition, you'll want to check out the new

  • Flex Skin Design Extensions
    Quickly and easily export Flex skins from Adobe Photoshop®, Fireworks®, Illustrator® and Flash®

And, of course, you can test these and other great features:

  • Support for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
    Extend Flex applications to the desktop
  • SWF size reduction
    Reduce file size by caching the Flex framework on users' computers
  • Refactoring
    Find and rename references to classes, variables, and methods
  • Ease of integration with Adobe Flash CS3
    Use your interactive, animated content from Flash as a component in Flex

Flex 3 beta 2 is near feature-complete and is a very high quality beta release."


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