{"id":255,"date":"2009-10-05T07:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T07:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aasims.wordpress.com\/?p=255"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T20:49:48","slug":"flex-version-comparison-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aasimnaseem.com\/blog\/flex-version-comparison-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Flex version comparison chart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Enhanced feature.<\/span><\/td>\n\"flexLogo\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
FEATURE<\/th>\nFLEX BUILDER 2<\/th>\nFLEX BUILDER 3 PROFESSIONAL<\/th>\nFLEX BUILDER 3 STANDARD<\/th>\nFLEX 3 SDK<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
RIA ON THE DESKTOP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Drag and drop support<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Multi-window applications<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Local file system access<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Local SQLite database storage<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Complete HTML rendering<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Full Adobe AIR code hinting and error reporting<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AIR debugging and profiling<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AIR application packaging and signing<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
DATA VISUALIZATION<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Advanced Datagrid<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Datagrid<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Charting components<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
TESTING<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Performance profiler<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Memory profiler<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Support for automated functional testing<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Interactive debugging<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
DESIGN VIEW<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Drag and drop components to create rich UI<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pan and zoom tools<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Improved constraints editor<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enhanced color picker<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
OpenType\u00ae font support<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CSS skinning and styling<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Visual CSS editor for graphical editing of CSS properties<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Design view extensibility for third-party products<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
DESIGNER\/DEVELOPER WORKFLOW<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Native Flex format exporting from Adobe Fireworks\u00ae, Photoshop\u00ae, Flash, and Illustrator\u00ae<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Custom Flex component creation using Flash CS3 Professional<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Skin asset importing into Flex Builder<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
CODING TOOLS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
MXML and ActionScript\u2122 editors<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Refactoring<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Faster compilation time<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ability to save applications as Flex 2.0.1 or Flex 3 SDK<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Version control<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
PERFORMANCE<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
SWF file size reduction<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Web-tier compilers for IIS and Apache<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
WORKING WITH DATA<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Web service introspection<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Code-gen wizards for Adobe ColdFusion\u00ae, Java\u2122, PHP, .NET<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
BROWSER INTEGRATION<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Deep linking<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
JavaScript and Ajax wrappers<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flex\/Ajax bridge<\/th>\nYes<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\nFull<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
LOCALIZATION<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Dynamic load of localization resource bundles at runtime<\/th>\nNo<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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