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Holy Crap! There’s a lot of new stuff in Flash Builder…

Seriously, there are so many new features and enhancements in Flash Builder, it would be impossible to mention them all.  Instead, to really get a taste of what’s new in Flash Builder, you really need to watch the videos.  Since I work on language features (primarily the language model), I was lucky enough to demo [...]

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Quick tour of ASDoc support in Gumbo (Flex Builder 4)

If you were lucky enough to be at MAX this year, and even luckier to see the “Looking ahead to Flex Builder 4″ session, then you saw me demo ASDoc support in the next version of Flex Builder, code-named “Gumbo”. For everyone else, this feature is way too cool (and useful) not to know [...]

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• Let's say you've just pasted in a snippet of code, or loaded a file that is missing imports.  When you compile, you get errors and you're stuck importing each definition by hand.  Flex Builder provides a bit of a hidden feature here to help you import your missing types:  next to each type that is missing, press control-space at the end of the missing definition. Flex Builder will put the import in automatically. (more...) #
• A feature forever undocumented in Flex Builder is the ability to jump directly to matching braces.  To use it, simply place your cursor to the left on an { or the right of an } and press Ctrl/Cmd+shift+P.  For the JDT nerds out there, it's the same key command.  Enjoy! #