Documentation for the Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 Beta Releases

Hi everyone,
Today we shipped the public beta of Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 on Adobe Labs. For the public beta, we have a whole bunch of learning resources and I'd like to take a minute to lay them out for you.

You should probably start by reading the introductions from our Product Managers:

• Matt Chotin's intro to Flex 4


• Tim Buntel's intro to Flash Builder 4

Although we still have a lot of work to do, we've provided a fairly rich set of beta documentation.

• Using Adobe Flex 4 (PDF) - Flex SDK and Framework usage content. This book combines the Flex Developer's Guide, Creating and Extending Flex Components, and Building and Deploying Flex Applications. Needless to say, the PDF of this content is huge (36Mb)!


• Using Adobe Flash Builder 4 ((PDF)) - Flash Builder usage content


• Adobe Flex 4 Tutorials (PDF) - Tutorials to help you get started with new Flex 4 and Flash Builder 4 features.


• Creating Data-Driven Applications with Adobe Flex 4 (PDF)- Usage content for data access in Flex. Includes information on new Flash Builder data service features.
  


• Adobe Flex 4 Feature and Migration (PDF-only)


• Flex 4 ActionScript Language Reference

Also, some of the developers created videos and they really turned out well. I encourage you to check these out, too. They live under http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashbuilder4/tutorials

And finally, if you really want background information, there are updated specs on opensource.adobe.com:

• IGraphicElement spec


• Horizontal & Vertical Layout


• Basic Layout


• DataGroup


• Group


• SkinnableDataContainer


• SkinnableContainer


• VideoPlayer

Most of these pages allow comments, but you should feel free to post comments to this page, too.

Known issues:

• The usage content includes running samples. However, some of the samples have runtime errors. We are working to fix these as soon as possible.

And I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge and thank the Flex Learning Resources team: Erich Champion, Janice Campbell, Linda Adler, Matt Horn, Pam Araki, Shimi Rahim, Stephen Gilson, and Vince Genovese. They've been working hard for quite a while and I really appreciate their excellence and their effort.

Regards,
Randy Nielsen