Flex 3 Cookbook

Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers

By Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson
May 2008
Pages: 704
Series: Adobe Developer Library
ISBN 10: 0-596-52985-6 | ISBN 13: 9780596529857
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This highly practical book contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. You'll find everything from Flex basics and working with menus and controls, to methods for compiling, deploying, and configuring Flex applications. Each recipe features a discussion of how and why it works, and many of them offer sample code that you can put to use immediately.
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The best way to showcase a powerful new technology is to demonstrate its real-world results, and that's exactly what this new Cookbook does with Adobe Flex 3.

Wide ranging and highly practical, Flex 3 Cookbook contains more than 300 proven recipes for developing interactive Rich Internet Applications and Web 2.0 sites. You'll find everything from Flex basics, to solutions for working with visual components and data access, to tips on application development, unit testing, and using Adobe AIR.

You also get ideas from the development community. Through its Flex Cookbook website (www.adobe.com/devnet/), Adobe invited Flex developers to post their own solutions for working with this technology, and from hundreds of posts, the authors chose the best and most useful solutions to supplement Flex 3 Cookbook.

Each recipe inside provides a solution to a common problem, explains how and why it works, and offers sample code that you can put to use immediately. Topics include:

Containers and dialogues
Working with Text
Data driven components
DataGrid and Advanced DataGrid
ItemRenderers and Editors
Images, bitmaps, videos, and sounds
CSS, styling, and skinning
States and effects
Working with Collections, arrays, and DataProviders
Using DataBinding
Validation, formatting, and regular expressions
Using Charts and data visualization
Services and Data Access
Using RSLs and Modules
Working with Adobe AIR

Whether you're a committed Flex developer or still evaluating the technology, you'll discover how to get quick results with Flex 3 using the recipes in this Cookbook. It's an ideal way to jumpstart your next web application.

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Oreilly make best books french people will be so silly in the future..., April 28 2009

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Submitted by flashflexeur [Respond | View]

Hi great book, but i didn't understand all the words in it.
So ok you close french oreilly spot, but can we imagine have some french ebook ? it s not so expensive , isn't it ?

Some french people like to read oreilly's book so you can't just dissapear like a mirage...

i am looking for many books of actionscript3 and Flex in french but no more, so thx much oreilly and have a nice day lol take it easy...

I Really Needed Chapter 5 and 19, March 18 2009

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Submitted by Harley Powers Parks [Respond | View]

There are quite a few different resources, some are good too, however, there really are never enough examples for the different situations we all have, right? Even the adobe live docs are good and will save you time if you use them to get started, however, what's really really helpful is to cut and past in code (provided) built on common scenarios, like this cookbook, compile it, then modify it a bit to work with a different configuration more along your own needs. I don't know if it would help everyone else to have a Flex 3 Cookbook forum, with chapter mods made by users to specific examples or combination of chapters, but I know chapter 5 and 19 really helped to understand how to work with Trees and xml data coming from a server.
I have the online pdf book, which I keep bookmarked in my browser for easy reference. for me, it's one less book i need to lug around, and I for sure have at least a few books as references. However, because you need specific sections, you don't need to be flipping through the more definitive references. This is a must have book, you can't not not have this online version, even if you buy the hardcopy.

Flex 3 Cookbook Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers By Joshua Noble, Todd Anderson
May 2008
Pages: 704
cost: 44.99 print, 35.99 ebook, or both 58.49

A must have!, September 04 2008

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Submitted by Fraser Crcosbie [Respond | View]

I just finished skimming through this book and have decided that every Flex developer should own a copy. I have been developing Flex applications for over a year now and I still managed to learn a ton of new things from this book. The authors have done an excellent job of formatting the book into problem and solution scenarios. Quick and easy answers. The book starts off with issues a Flex noob might encounter and then proceeds all the way up to issues a Flex pro might encounter. Each solution includes code and a discussion/explination. This book is not really a cover to cover read, but more of a quick reference that you want to have within an arms reach while coding. I still recommend skimming through it when you first get it, because I'm sure you'll learn a bunch of new tidbits right off the bat.

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Great book - Can we ger the xml also?, June 24 2008

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Submitted by Mike H [Respond | View]

This is a great book. Fantastic job getting the quick answers I needed. Thanks for making the code available on line. Any chance you can also include the assets directory that is referenced int he code.
For example we need assets/homesforsale.xml.
Thanks

where's the code?!, June 22 2008
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Hello Dan,

As with all our books, the code is available via the "Examples" link beneath the book's cover on the catalog page: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529857/index.html . For your convenience, you can download the examples directly from http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596529857/ .

Thanks for the review!

Regards, --Allen

Example Code, June 22 2008
Submitted by Sarah Kim [Respond | View]

Hi Dan and Dirk,

If a book has downloadable example code it is always available from a link called "Examples" on the left side of the book's page under the book cover.

The direct link to download the example code from Flex 3 Cookbook is:

http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596529857/

Kind regards,
Sarah

where's the code?!, June 22 2008

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Submitted by Dan [Respond | View]

This book friggin rocks, but I can't find the sample code anywhere for it!!!

...no question i would've given this book 5 stars if I didn't just waste an hour trying to find the stupid sample code :(

Great cookbook! But where to get the recipes' code?, June 12 2008

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Submitted by Dirk V. Schesmer [Respond | View]

A very good approach to get thing done !

But unfortunately, I am not able to find the link to downlaod the code! Can please anyone tell me how to get in touch with the recipes' code?

Thanks,

Dirk V. Schesmer
Stuttgart/Germany

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