Fluorine FX

The Silent Group launch a new open source .NET library. FluorineFx provides an implementation of Flex/Flash Remoting, Flex Data Services and real-time messaging functionality for the .NET framework.

http://www.fluorinefx.com/

Flex 2 Inline Item Renderer Tip

I stumbled upon an unknown property as I was trying to use an Inline Item Renderer on my DataGrid Columns. If you use the <mx:component> tag with your inline item renderer and try to have your component call an event in your main application you will get a nasty "Access to undefined method blah blah". This is because your Inline Item Renderer is unaware of what exists in your main application. But you can use the outerDocument property to access event handlers in you main application.

<mx:itemRenderer>
<mx:Component>
<mx:VBox >
<mx:Button label="Remove" click="outerDocument.remove()"/>
</mx:VBox>
</mx:Component>
</mx:itemRenderer>

Fluorine Tutorial

I wrote a tutorial on using Amfphp 1.9 with the Flex 2 SDK. One of the things I wanted to do was to convert my Amfphp tutorial into a Fluorine tutorial but just couldn't find the time to do so. Well as luck would have it I need to use Fluorine for on an application for a client. So I will begin development on a Fluorine with the Flex 2 SDK tutorial. I would like to publish this tutorial on HowToForge but I don't think that have a section for C#, .NET, or Flex 2.

Amfphp 1.9 Tutorial. Good, Bad or Don't Care

I recently had my tutorial published on http://www.HowToForge.com . I have not been getting very much feedback on it. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I expected to have a lot of errors being it was my very first tutorial. It took me a little over two weeks to write because of my day job but I truly enjoyed writting it. My plans are to write a similar tutorial for Fluorine and FDS Express but I thought I let the community decide. What should my next Flex tutorial be?