Adobe Flex 3 details: first time in public

Theodore Patrick, Flex Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems will be posting many details about Flex 3 on his blog this week. Many of the features have not been discussed publicly and this will be the first time for many to see what the teams have been working on.

Till now Ted went through the Designer/Developer Workflow which is one of the key areas of change in Flex 3. Des/Dev enhancements to Flex 3, as he calls it in short, include:

• Skin Importer
• Design View Zoom/Pan
• ItemRenderers in Design View
• Advanced constraints
• CS3 integration
• CSS Outline
• CSS Design View
• many Flex 3 SDK style/skinning enhancements.

Code Enhancements in Flex 3 were discussed in his last post on Tuesday. These he calls "a standout in this release". The features include:

• Faster compilation, compiler class caching
• Deeper language intelligence for AS3/MXML/CSS
• Refactoring (Renaming: Method,Class,Variable)
• Code Search
• Code Outline
• Memory Profiling, Performance Profiling, Profiling Live Memory Data
• Enhanced Module support
• Multiple SDK support.