Flash Builder + Flash Catalyst = what for Flash?

Does the combination of Catalyst with Builder cannibalize Flash?

Hello. I am on the other end of the spectrum, vast knowledge in coding but very poor UI skills. My background is almost exclusively Microsoft making it a bit more challenging. Being brand new to Flash Builder but having used Flash 8 a bit I have learned that they really upped the coding knowledge requirements. For example on the button click event one just gets a click event listener as opposed to a code wizard from flash that normally will do the work.
I've taught remedial programming at a business college in the past and if I had any advice it would be to commit yourself to learning some beginner coding.
For this particular product I would focus on strings, objects, events and methods. I have found some free Flash Builder ebooks searching google books or other online free ebook sites. Most of the non-google sites will allow you to download a complete PDF file. There is much more Flexbuilder 3 content out there than Flash Builder but Flexbuilder 3 is very similar and will help.
At the end of the day, most of today's RIA tools (Flash Builder, Silverlight etc) are going to require both knowledge in design and coding.

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Ask for serial number http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1234635 has a FAQ link
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Adobe Flash Builder 4 licence is for one desktop and one laptop, only one at a time run or...?

hi,
Flashbuilder has the ability to create and run Air content from the IDE, to actually usean Air App outside of the IDE you need to install Air.
Flashbuilder install includes 2 sdks, the 3.5 sdk for 'backward' compatibility with Flexbuilder and for targeting flashplayer 9, the 4.x SDK for Flashbuilder and targetting flashplayer 10.0 and above.
As far as fair use is concerned Adobe have had fair use software licensing for a while, single user 2 devices is not a problem, what is not clear is if you can use the software on both devices at the same time.
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1) Make sure you project is pointing to the right SDK after you imported
2) Make sure that SDK name is in your preferences Flash Builder > Installed Flex SDKs and it points to the right location
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[svn:fx-trunk] 12087: Dev only. Checking in Flash Builder 4 " Library Projects" for building Flex SDK SWCs in trunk.

Revision: 12087
Revision: 12087
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-11-21 20:56:09 -0800 (Sat, 21 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
Dev only. Checking in Flash Builder 4 "Library Projects" for building Flex SDK SWCs in trunk. These projects are easier to import and do not require linked resource variables to be specified.
Note: although the trunk does not build textLayout.swc, there appears to be a legitimate compiler error in FlowGroupElement.as as a cast is missing. I'll follow up with TLF.
QE notes: N/A
Doc notes: N/A
Bugs: N/A
Reviewer: N/A
Tests run: N/A
Is noteworthy for integration: No
Modified Paths:
    flex/sdk/trunk/build.xml
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