David Gassner – Flex 2 Beyond the Basics

Flex 2 Beyond the Basics

By: David Gassner

Duration: 6 hours

Description:

In Flex 2 Beyond the Basics, instructor David Gassner helps users take Flex 2 to the next level by demonstrating how to create custom, multimedia-rich, data-driven applications. He covers everything from debugging and tracing code to designing sophisticated menu systems to working with application servers (such as ColdFusion MX 7 and ASP.NET). Flex 2 Beyond the Basics offers step-by-step instruction for building professional, seamless applications to increase productivity. Exercise files accompany the tutorial videos. It is recommended that subscribers new to Adobe Flex 2 first view Flex 2 Essential Training in the lynda.com Online Training Library™.

Table of contents:

Introduction

• Welcome 0:53
• Exercise files setup 6:16

1. Debugging

• Overview 1:37
• The debugging perspective 4:26
• Debugging and tracing your code 7:22
• Using breakpoints 6:53 10.4 MB
• Watching variables and expressions 9:18
• Tracing network traffic 4:24

2. Advanced Event Programming

• Overview 2:08
• Reviewing custom events 5:09
• Using addEventListener() 8:50
• Event bubbling 4:53
• Centralized event handling 9:32

3. Tree Controls

• Using tree controls 6:44
• Using E4X 6:37
• E4X syntax examples 4:15
• Handling tree control events 9:47

4. Menu Systems

• Using the MenuBar component 4:51
• Handling menu events 6:35
• Using the ApplicationControlBar 3:52
• Using the PopUpMenuButton component 4:05

5. Popup Dialogs

• Using the Alert class 4:32
• Adding buttons to the Alert class and handling its events 5:59
• Changing the appearance of the Alert dialog box 4:32
• Custom popup dialog boxes 6:31
• Centering and closing custom dialog boxes 8:14
• Dispatching and handling events from a popup dialog 8:19

6. Visual Effects

• Using effects 11:14 1
• Compound effects 9:03
• Using transitions 6:06
• Using filters 7:07
• Skinning components 7:53

7. Working with ColdFusion

• Which ColdFusion do you need with Flex 2? 6:06
• Installing CFEclipse 4:15
• CFEclipse projects 3:23
• Flex Builder projects with ColdFusion 4:22
• Calling ColdFusion components as remote objects 11:33
• Retrieving data from ColdFusion 9:41
• Sending simple data to ColdFusion 5:12
• Sending objects to ColdFusion 7:30
• Installing the ColdFusion extensions for Flex Builder 2 4:35
• Using the ColdFusion extensions for Flex Builder 2 12:29

8. User Authentication

• Authentication overview 3:05
• Maintaining client-side authentication 9:51
• Role-based security 6:30

9. Client-Side Data Handling

• Client-side data filters 7:08
• Client-side data sorting 6:08
• Centralizing data storage with the ModelLocator pattern 9:34
• Using local shared objects 5:25

10. Data Presentation

• Using the Repeater control 4:49
• Using the Tile container 4:34

11. Working with .NET

• Building .NET Web services with Visual Studio Express 3:14
• Building a .NET Web service 6:55
• Calling a simple .NET Web service 5:12
• Sending arguments to a .NET Web service 4:09
• Sending a transfer object to a .NET Web Service 5:27
• Receiving a DataTable from a .NET Web service 6:08
• Receiving an array of objects from a .NET Web service 6:59

Conclusion

• Goodbye 0:35

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