As part of my MAX talks in Chicago and Barcelona, I used a simple Contact Manager application to demonstrate offline synchonization using AIR and LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS). Many people have asked me to share the code, so here it is… This is actually an update of an application I posted a few months ago [...

UPDATE: This version is now obsolete. A new version is available here. Here is an updated/rewritten version of my AIR SQLite Admin application. You can use this application to examine the structure of a database, create a new database or open an existing one, execute any type of SQL statement, etc. An interesting aspect of this new [...

I will be presenting a session called “Rich Internet Applications for the Browser and the Desktop with Flex and AIR” at the QCon Conference on November 7th. I delivered a similar session at QCon in London earlier this year: QCon is definitely a high quality conference with deep technical content around Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, [...

I migrated the Salesbuilder application for Flex 3 / AIR beta 2. Click here to install the application. Click here to download the source code. Follow this script for a guide tour of the application.

A little known feature of Flex 3 is that you can annotate ActionScript classes with your own metadata.

As promised, here is the source code for the Salesbuilder Flex / Air sample application: salesbuilder_src_beta2.zip Disclaimer: This is work in progress and some code still needs to be polished and documented. I’m planning on continuing to develop the application, starting with complete server integration and synchronization. Your feedback and ideas are welcome. I also took the [...

I spent some time improving the Salesbuilder Flex / AIR demo application I posted a couple of weeks ago. This version is a lot more complete and polished than the initial incarnation of the application. Salesbuilder is a Sales Force Automation application that demonstrates local persistence using the embedded SQLite database, data synchronization, native drag-and-drop, and [...

The AIR database access API is asynchronous. This works well for executing expensive queries without blocking the user interface. However, sometimes you may need to run a series of short and interdependent statements, and in that case, executing each statement asynchronously and independently can make your code difficult to manage. Consider an example where you have [...

One of the exciting features of AIR is that it enables drag-and-drop between your Flex applications and the desktop: For example, you could drag a chart from your Flex application and drop it on your desktop as a JPG, or directly inside a Word document. Similarly, you could grab some rows from a Datagrid and [...

NOTE: This version of the application is now obsolete. I posted a new and significantly improved version here. SalesBuilder is a sample Sales Force Automation application that allows you to work offline (using the SQLite database embedded in the AIR runtime), and synchronize data with the server when you are back online. In addition to using a [...