Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers

I've checked and corrected all the examples of the Adobe AIR chapter (Chapter 14) of the Flex Solutions book against the Adobe AIR 1.0.

After the recent release of Adobe Flex 3 by Adobe, I have updated all the examples of the book against Flex 3 Final. Only some of solutions seems having some problems with the Flex 3, so you can download this updated set of files perfectly working.
Just donwload and copy the new files overwriting the old ones (you can download from this page).

There is a connection between MXML components and those developed with ActionScript. In the compilation phase, everything is reduced to an ActionScript class. So why does a developer have to create an ActionScript component? This choice obviously depends on the objectives and the requisites of the project, but there are also a few rules for developers to follow:
* If you are creating simple components that modify the behavior of an existing Flex
component, it is faster to create an MXML component (for example, if you are just

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Solution 2-2: Defining properties and methods of MXML components­

Solution 2-1: Creating and invoking MXML components

You can create components using both MXML and ActionScript, and each language brings
about the same results—although there are advantages to each approach. While components
created using MXML are simpler to develop, they don’t offer the control that
ActionScript components give.
In this first solution you’ll learn how to create an MXML component.

What’s involved

In the next posts I'll copy and paste all the solutions written for Chapter 2:Using Flex Components of the Flex Solutions book. 
This is the introduction of the chapter: 

In the next days I'll publish all the solutions written in the Chapter 2: Using Flex Components of my book Flex Solutions: Essential tecniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3 developers. This is a sample chapter you'll be able to read and this is the description of what I'll deal with in this chapter :

I've uploaded all the code of the examples I've used through the Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developer in the Download section of this site.In order to download all the examples you need to register to the site.Have fun !
 

Yesterday the  Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers book was released.

Writing a book really is a huge undertaking.  During the course of
the journey, you often have the feeling that you will never reach the
end. Not only because you are working at night after a long day at work
and on weekends, but particularly because it is a task that absorbs all
your ideas and requires constant and assiduous concentration. You often

The final table of content of the Flex Solutions book is the following :
Chapter 1: Flex Basics
Chapter 2: Using Flex Components
Chapter 3: Working with Data Models and the Value Object
Chapter 4: Validating and Formatting Data
Chapter 5: Managing Complex Data
Chapter 6: Working with Remote Data Using the RPC Classes