Steve.Learns.Flex

Asset and project config preloading

SteveLearnsFlex — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:10:36 +0000

I’m looking to implement a configuration and asset loader and have come upon the AppCoreLib.

On it’s face this it like a useful contribution but I’m unclear as to usage details. For example, in the sample source we see tags for both and but nothing for image formats (gif, jpg, png).

It’d be very useful to understand the intent of ‘’ in both content.xml and config.xml.

MSDataShape provider under 05EE

SteveLearnsFlex — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:26:47 +0000

I’m attempting to use a provider that had worked under SQL2K but is tossing an error under 05 Express Edition. I’m on a completely new server so perhaps it’s just a matter or replicating some libraries or other related files that don’t exist out of the box.

The connection string that had worked is:
“Provider=MSDataShape; Data Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Persist Security Info=True;User Id=me;PASSWORD=foo;Database=bar”

Error reads:
80004005 [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen_(Invalid_Instance()).]Invalid_connection. 605

The resolution is:

“Provider=MSDataShape; Data Provider=SQLNCLI;Persist Security Info=True;User Id=me;PASSWORD=foo;Database=bar”

Data Services Made Easy for Adobe Flex Applications

SteveLearnsFlex — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:12:01 +0000

Data Services Made Easy for Adobe Flex Applications
— Flex has gotten popular lately because of its rich GUI capabilities. It also comes in handy with HTTPService and Web Service components connecting to back-end servers to fetch and update data. But using this mechanism to talk to the back-end server requires formulating a unique service object from the Flex side, making a request, and getting back data from the back-end either in XML or plain text format. The response data then has to be parsed and fed to the Flex objects to update the UI. For small to medium-size Flex projects it’s a viable solution, but for enterprise projects with thousands of external service calls it will get quite repetitive and could result in a lot of unmanageable, buggy code. – http://flex.sys-con.com/read/418939.htm

A really provacative idea being presented here – synchronize object structure between server-side and the client.

This is one of those ideas that entice us designer crossovers with visions of easily discoverable, accessable, post-processable server-side stuff. And if we know enough T-SQL we can really make some noise at an architectural level.

Can’t help but wonder at the lack of followup/comments by the community.

What would the reverse look like? if one were defining the server-side objects from the native Flex? Couldn’t we literally feed mxml components in a digestible way?