Amethyst PE - Adobe AIR and Flex in Microsoft Visual Studio
Amethyst Personal Edition (PE) is an editing and project management
environment for developing Adobe Flex and AIR applications using Visual
Studio. In the first quarter of 2009 a Professional Edition release including extended features is intended.
The company behind the project is SapphireSteel Software. While the project is still in Beta Phase, it has plenty of features. Meanwhile the company is making internal "alpha" releases to ensure the smooth development process.
Here is a more comprehensive list of features:
Amethyst PE
- is an editing and project management environment for Flex and AIR
- is fully integrated into Visual Studio 2008
- can compile, build and launch ActionScript, Flex and AIR projects
- can integrate Flex/AIR projects with other types of Visual Studio projects
- can import existing Flex/AIR projects
- provides extensive code coloring, code collapsing, code formatting and commenting
- is FREE and may even be installed (optionally) into the free Visual Studio Shell Edition
Feature list for the commercial edition of Amethyst. Amethyst Professional
- will be a professional quality Flex/AIR design, editing and debugging environment
- will provide a fully integrated drag-and-drop visual user interface designer
- will integrate its visual designer with the code editor and Visual Studio tools
- will have a powerful visual debugger with ‘drill-down’ expansion of variables
- will have both analytical (‘on-the-fly’) and reflective (derived from compiled code) IntelliSense
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