IDE Factory - Extend your FlexBuilder

04 Sep 2008

I heard about IDE Factory via AXNA a couple of weeks back. I managed to check it out today and I must say it rocks.

If you have done Java development using Eclipse IDE, you are going to love IDE Factory. IDE Factory brings a lot of features to Flex development. Following is the list of features (brought by IDE Factory in FB3), I think would be super useful:-

• Package Explorer, I love the SWC and Flex/Flash framework stuff
• E4X Expression Builder
• Format Flex Source Files - Yup, it can format all source files in the project
• Extended Wizards for creating ActionScript class/interface and MXML components
• Cairngorm support

Apart from these, there are some other stuff like asdoc generation, flex-unit tests generation, UML generation, etc.
I am sure, it's going to evolve to be super useful and would become must-have tool for Flex application development.

It would be great, if they can add support for other Flex frameworks (PureMVC, etc).

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