Amethyst Hits Beta 5 – Includes Support for Refactoring
May 26th, 2009 by ryanstewart
I just got an email from Huw that Amethyst, one of the Visual Studio plugins for Flex, has hit Beta 5 which includes refactoring support and the options to run and debug using a web server. He’s also made some tweaks to the code formatting and some bug fixes.
I’m really excited to see the Visual Studio/.NET ecosystem for Flex start to grow up. Between WebORB for .NET, FlourineFx, Amethyst, and Tofino it’s a pretty good time to be combining .NET and Flex.
You can grab the Amethyst Beta 5 bits here. Make sure to give them feedback and let them know what you think.
Posted in Flex
May 27th, 2009 at 12:57 am
What does it say about Flex Builder and Adobe’s committment to it, when an independent and much smaller company can produce a Flex IDE with significantly better refactoring, debugginng, formatting, etc??
May 27th, 2009 at 2:18 am
I haven’t spent time diving into Amethyst’s features to know how they compare to Flash Builder. But I don’t think there should be any question that we’re committed to it. It’s a pretty core part of our developer tools.
=Ryan
ryan@adobe.com
August 30th, 2010 at 1:32 pm
Hey Ryan,
I thought I’d update you. Amethyst launched today and we’ve announced a technology partnership that will enable end-to-end Flash/Flex to .NET development inside Visual Studio. Pretty good news for the Flash platform evangelists I’d say. I’ve posted a news release here: http://bit.ly/cPzYbi