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Packaging Flex 4 Components

In the third episode of the Simeon Says Screencast I am joined by Garth Braithwaite. Garth and I did some discussion a while back about how to best get skins applied to Flex 4 components that we want to share with folks. The result of that was some actionscript that set a default skin and allowed you to over ride it. But I recently found a better way. Using the defaults.css file in your swc...

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What Makes Flex 4 different from All the Previous Versions?

Now that the Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst betas have been released on labs, we are going to see a huge influx of people taking their first look at what Flex 4 has to offer. Many of them are going to be migrating from Flex 3 and they are going to see a lot of changes about how things work. Concepts that were very familiar in Flex 2 and 3 are now overlayed with new options that make cause for...

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Namespaces in Flex 4 are the correct choice

I got pinged several times this morning in response to Aral Balkin’s post on the use of namespaces in Flex 4. I can’t get his site to load so I can not comment on his post there. But I feel strongly enough about this matter that I wanted to get something out in response right away. Namespaces in Flex are the RIGHT decision. No matter how you look at it using namespaces to reference...

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