There is coverage of how best to plan your applications and use the Model-View-Controller pattern to keep various aspects of development separated and ease creation of projects that potentially complicated. Rich Internet Applications rely on data, and this book shows how to bring data from various sources into your Flex application and check the integrity, and the best way to display and interact with it. Go far, applications built for the Flash platform can now exist and function beyond the traditional boundaries of a web browser. Adobe AIR allows you to take your application to the desktop, and this book shows how to reapply your Flex skills to take advantage of this new environment. Important Guide to Flex 3 takes you through all the powerful features of Flex using a series of independent, practical exercises. Skills acquired throughout the book are then brought together in the form of case studies featuring full-featured applications with important techniques that can be easily applied to your own Flex applications. In this book you will Learn how to create powerful applications using Adobe Flex 3 Use Flex Builder to design layouts using Flex MXML containers, and see how to combine MXML and ActionScript 3.0 Working your way through a full-featured case studies, complete building Flex applications Flex Connect to ColdFusion application server, making the code Flex applications powered by dynamic server-side Take your web applications to the desktop using Adobe AIR Summary of Contents Chapter 1: Chapter Flex and Flex Builder 3 3:: Basic Flex ActionScript Chapter 2 Chapter 4: Containers Chapter 5: Events and Components Chapter 6: Flex and XML Chapter 7: Formatting and Cascading Style Sheets Chapter 8: The Repeater Component Chapter 9: Drag and Drop Chapter 10: Case Study: Part 1 Chapter 11: Case Study: Part 2 Chapter 12: Flex and Data Chapter 13: Printing Chapter 14: Charting Chapter 15: Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)