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Developer Connection: Learn the Flex component architecture

Learn to build and use components

Refer to the featured tutorials and videos on this page to learn about building and using components.

Overview

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Download software and documentation

To build and debug Flex apps: Get the free Flex SDK
To develop Flex apps faster: Try Flex Builder
Flex 3 Documentation (ZIP, 69M)
ILOG Elixir
Tour de Flex component explorer

Working with components in Flex 3

Building components

Tutorial: Creating Flex components
Tutorial: Building a simple dashboard with ILOG Elixir
Tutorial: Building an icon-checkbox component with Flex 3
Tutorial: Creating components and enforcing separation of concerns
Video: Create customer Flex components using Flash CS3

Using components

Tutorial: Creating a driving directions Flex app using the Google Maps API for Flash
Tutorial: Using Flash media components in Flex projects
Tutorial: Exploring a Flex and Flash component workflow
Blog: Yahoo! and Flex: Feel good in your own skin
Excerpt: Audio and video components
eSeminar: Integrating Flex and video
Resource: Flex Component Exchange
Excerpt: Introducing hierarchal data and components
Tutorial: Building data-driven map applications using the Flex DataMap control
Tutorial: Building interactive maps with Flex

Working with components in Flex 2

Note: Although the following tutorials were written for Flex 2, they may still apply to Flex 3 after some minor changes to the description and code.

LiveDocs: Creating components at runtime
Tutorial: Designing Flex 2 skins and styles using CS3
Tutorial: Creating a rich text editor with Fireworks CS3
Book excerpt: From framework utilities to data integration

Tutorial: Designing Flex applications with Fireworks CS3
Tutorial: Exporting MXML and images from Fireworks CS3
Tutorial: Creating rich symbols for MXML in Fireworks CS3
Tutorial: Building an image-viewing widget with ActionScript 3.0

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