Amethyst Hits Beta 5 – Includes Support for Refactoring

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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.

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  • Marcus

    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??

  • ryanstewart

    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

  • http://www.themidnightcoders.com Kathleen Erickson

    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