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I was reading some online documentation on Adobe Labs last night about how to target Flash Player 10 Beta with Flex SDK 3.0.x.  It struck me that the approach to configuring the compiler in Flex Builder 3 could not be more disparate to how things are done in Flash CS3.  The most significant thing for me is that my version of Flex Builder 3 is future proofed (to an extent) through its ability to work with future SDK releases.

In contrast, if I want to publish my flash files to Flash Player 10 or later I will have to buy the latest version of the Flash Authoring environment.  This has always been the case with the Flash Authoring environment but wouldn’t it be great if CS3 had an equivalent feature that could be availed of when Player 10 is released?  Surely what’s good enough for developers using Flex Builder is also good enough for users of the Flash IDE or maybe I’m missing some obvious reason why the option of downloading a patch (or equivalent) doesn’t exist.

- Flex Builder 3 lets you add extra Flex SDKS to the compiler options.

Tags: Flash Publishing, Flex compiling

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