Here is the main application in Flex: Main.mxml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.macromedia.com/2005/mxml" xmlns="*" layout="absolute"     creationComplete="svc.getCalendar()">         <mx:Canvas id="BaseCanvas" label="Mobile Calendar">        ...

I just came across this blog Waldo Smeets. Skinning Components just got easy with Flex 2. There are support to define the 9 component skins right in the attributes of the MXML component tag it self. Before you had to do it in AS etc… Interesting in deed. Flash 8 provides a 9-slice scaling feature to help with the designing of components.

What better way to blog then blog while you are experience it. Here I am at our Las Vegas Macromedia User Group meeting (lvmmug.org). Scott Fegette is talking to us about Labs and Adobe’s community involvement. First interesting comment is about an internal saying in Adobe/Macromedia “We Heart Feedback”, bumper stickers anyone? They push the Forums, Labs, and the Macromedia Blog aggreator (MXNA). I also just noticed the...

Xamlon provides a lot to the RIA space. I have not used it personally but my first thoughts are questions. How many flash components does Xamlon support? I assume there are not as many as in Flex Framework. This is because they are mimicing .NET controls. Do they support Flash Remoting, or what RPC/Data Services do they provide? The answer to this quesiont is no and that they only support SOAP. All the new Flex 2 Enterprise Data Services...