Part of the Adobe Training from the Source series, the official curriculum from Adobe, developed by experienced trainers. Using project-based tutorials, this book/CD volume is designed to teach the techniques needed to create sophisticated, professional-level projects. Each book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. In the course of the book, the reader will build several Web applications using Flex Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. This title covers the component framework for Rich Internet Applications, Adobe Flex 3.0. New Flex 3 features covered in this edition are: the advanced DataGrid, Data Connectivity Wizards, Modularizing the Flex application, and options for deploying your Flex project with AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime).

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Almost what I'm looking for - 2009-06-18
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This book is well thought out. As the book walks us through in building an e-commerce website, concepts and principles are introduced in ever-complex order. For example, the book walks you through in creating a combobox that connects to a static array in the early chapters; and then revisits that same combobox and connects to a remote service like an http service tag.

I'm glad I made this purchase. It's ideal for a hobbyist, which I am, trying to build a professional-looking personal website.

I would've given this book 5-stars, but I had a difficult time locating a certain solution as I build my website. The index in the back and the table of contents need some attention. I was trying to find a way to number format a column in a datagrid/advanceddatagrid to have display leading zeros. Finally I had to purchase the Flex 3 Cookbook that's nothing but examples after examples of common issues a programmer might come across.

Don't get me wrong this book is great, but it needed to be paired up with a pure reference book like the Cookbook I purchased. Together, the look/feel/feature-set of my website is only limited to my imagination.

This book is not for a beginner - 2009-10-16
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As a new programmer into Flex language, I hoped to learn and later master a development of Flex application, but could not carry on with this book after going through first 13 chapters. This book is good, if you have some knowledge and experience with Flex language and you want to learn how to create advanced application. However, for beginner, it has very little value. It does not explain syntax, events and how to invoke them properly, access to controls' properties, input/output handling and error processing. Following the code without clarification does not give me a chance to learn the language properly. I believe that the scope of the chosen project is too broad for the beginners; you start with massive development and fill the blanks later. Some topics, like states and renderers are introduced too early, some other, like error handling too late. I give this book three stars, because I had learn something from it, but I will recommend starting with Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications by Alaric Cole (ISBN# 0596517327).

For those that learn hands-on, this is the book for you. - 2009-10-08
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This book was written by a great well-known team of writers in the Flex space. It's got very good information, and the best part I think is the effort that was put into providing start, intermediate, and completed source files.

Worth checking out, even with Flex 4 on the horizon.

Very good introduction, very comprehensive - 2009-08-17
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I have learned a lot. It have been a good introduction to the Flex world.

Great book for learning Adobe Flex - 2009-06-21
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This book is good for some one starting to learn Flex.You don't need ActionScript experience to understand this book. It has lots and lots of examples you can try with. I didn't put 5 stars because it does not cover advanced topics on designining applications using a framework like Cairngorm or implementing BlazeDS.
But I would really recommend this as a good book to for starting on Flex and cover all the fundamentals of Flex.

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