Flex Developer Center

Learn Flex in a week

Build on your programming experience by stepping through this five-day video training course. Flex 4 beta in a Week is now also available in beta.

Learn about Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 betas

• What's new in Flex 4 beta (updated for beta 2)
• What's new in Flash Builder 4 beta (updated for beta 2)
• Differences between Flex 3 and Flex 4 beta (updated for beta 2)
• Five great new features in Flash Builder 4 beta
• Flex 4 beta effects: Part 1 and Part 2
• Data-centric development with Flash Builder 4 beta
• Introducing skinning in Flex 4 beta (updated for beta 2)
• Spark layouts with Flex 4 beta
• Integrating Flash Builder 4 beta with other Adobe products

Flex on Java book excerpt: Securing your Flex application

Bernard Allmon & Jeremy Anderson (Mar. 8, 2010)
Add authentication and authorization to specific parts of your Flex application through the use of the @Security annotations provided by the Spring Security framework.

Flex cookbook: Right-click item selecting and context menu manipulation in list control

Sebastian Misiewicz (Mar. 8, 2010)
See how to add the ability to right-click a list item and manipulate context menu on the fly for each list item.

Creating an HTTP connection in Flash Builder 4

David Gassner (Mar. 1, 2010)
Learn how to use the new Flash Builder 4 code generation features to define a data connection.

Extracting maximum value from the Flash Builder 4 Network Monitor

Anirudh Sasikumar (Feb. 22, 2010)
Learn how to use the Network Monitor in Flash Builder 4 to analyze HTTP traffic between your Flex application and the server.