Flex Builder, Flex SDK, and Charting Component all important parts of technology to suit different requirements of web development. Large set of possibilities can easily lead to overload for developers like you. It wouldnt be good to have a library of solutions to solve this problem quickly and easily? This book provides just that, with more than 100 solutions to common problems in one handy volume. Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3 Developers faces problems and provide solutions that can be applied to any project, from the simplest to the most complex. Solutions ranging from adjusting Flex components with ActionScript 3.0, using data models and the ActionScript classes as Value objects, validating and formatting data, using RPC classes to access data remotely, to optimize the performance of data-exchange by using AMF3. The solution is also given to improve the security of Flex applications, and techniques that are offered for optimizing the actual work environment by improving the performance of Flex Builder, adding video content, and creating an AIR project to bring your web applications to the desktop. If you want to learn and start to develop RIAs in a short time, will be immediately productive and mastering techniques Flex development, Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers is the book you need. In this book you will: Discover real world solutions to the daily Flex development, saving hours of development time. Learn how to customize and extend the Flex Components Model and design and program the look and feel of your Flex application. What you will learn tips using Flex components How to validate and format data How to manage complex data Filtering, sorting and using the cursor on data with collection classes How to consume Web Services using RPC components How to display data using list-based controls How to effectively collect and disseminate Flex applications How to customize the look and feel of your applications How to make your applications more secure How to become more efficient in using the Flex Builder IDE Unique tricks such as calculating memory usage, making your Flex application into an active desktop, and customize the way states use the ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder How to interface your Flex applications with server-side code written in PHP, Java, Rails, and ColdFusion Working with Flex in enterprise environment using the Flex Data Services, Java Remote Object and AMFPHP Who is this book? This book is for any Flex Flex 2 or 3 developers are comfortable with the basics and want to take their knowledge further with quick fire solutions to common problems.