An Adobe Flex™ plugin for Microsoft® Visual Studio®
Tofino is available for Free
Tofino 2.2010.08.27
Visual Studio 2008 including Flex SDK 4.1 (178 mb)[Download]
Visual Studio 2008 without Flex SDK 4.1 (6 mb)[Download]
Visual Studio 2010 including Flex SDK 4.1 (178 mb)[Download]
Visual Studio 2010 without Flex SDK 4.1 (6 mb)[Download]
Ensemble Tofino for Visual Studio is a plugin that enables .NET developers to create Flex front ends for their applications in the same IDE that they normally use. Instead of using a separate text or XML editor and manually invoking the compiler, they can move smoothly between MXML and .NET file types within Visual Studio, and invoke Flex build and run commands from Visual Studio menus.
This version provides improved support for Adobe Flex SDK 4.1 and completion list (Intellisense) improvements.
Our advice regarding a best practices design for web applications, particularly "rich" ones: implement your web app in a "proper" client/ server fashion, with the server *only* being concerned with fielding data requests and updates, and the flex client being the sole owner of the UI.
There are variations on this theme of course, especially if you consider mixed html/flex applications, but that is a good starting position. There are also various ways to talk to the server, including BlazeDS for remote procedure calls. We tend to start with simple xml messages posted to the server as http requests.
The sample included in our Tofino installation shows a simple client/ server example that demonstrates the approach we prefer for developing Flex client/.NET server applications.
Email questions and feedback to tofinosupport@ensemble.com
Ensemble Tofino is available for free.
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