Flash Builder 4 beta first impressions
So, I downloaded today Flash Builder 4 Beta, and so far I’m enjoying it like a child with a new toy (a shame that the toy goes away in 30 days). Just for the record, I don’t give a dime about the rebranding “issue”, as long as it keeps me achieving my development goals and tasks, and the Adobe guys keeps on adding cool sh!t to it I’m OK with that 
I haven’t played that LOT with it that’s for sure, but so far I wanted to give a try to one of the new features it has to offer, which is to drag/drop to the design stage a Flash Component and have the ability to edit it from there (of course it opens the Flash IDE), just for the sake of knowing what it takes to do that, and it resulted very simple …after you’re done editing it, by a click of a button, it gets compiled and exported back to Flex.damn it…Flash Builder Probably I’m impressed by the trivial but I think that’s really awesome.
To make a test I did some non-sense stuff, but is still cool. Just drag the Flash Component to stage; double-click on it, a popup window appears, you can change it’s name if you wish, and then click on the “Create” button to launch Flash IDE and create it.
In Flash IDE I just threw a Button and Dynamic TextField to stage, give them some extraordinary instance names, and added an embedded font to the library, so I could add listeners and use the embedded font within Flash Builder. It’s so easy and straightforward. Click on the image to view the sample.
And the rocket-science code of my first Flash Builder 4 beta app HERE!! 
Another thing that I liked is the little tips that are displayed once you hover to a property of a particular object. Cool Now I get to learn as well while developing.
One other thing I liked is the “Flex Theme” options you are given within the properties of a project, you just select your theme and click OK and are good too go. I specially liked the wireframe one for my mock-ups. Nice!
I know that so far I’ve been playing with the silly stuff, however as I dig more into it I will be loggin my joy here, besides I will leave the more technical shit to the gurus
Cheers!