RE: [flexcoders] Flex for database apps; compare to .net

2007-11-25 Thread Michael Pengi
I'm pretty new to .net also, so I suppose flex data services would be about the same learning curve. FDS, would it have any advantages over taking a .net approach? I seem to recall that FDS/LCDS has two way update notification/synching services or something of that order, which I took to mean

RE: [flexcoders] Flex for database apps; compare to .net

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Pengi
Thanks everyone, all of your posts were useful, Samuel's in particular. Samuel R. Neff wrote: Flex does not talk to a database directly (except with AIR but I gather you're talking about a web app). Flex talks to a back end which then can talk to a database. Flex works really well with

Re: [flexcoders] Flex for database apps; compare to .net

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Pengi
Thanks, I'll focus on 3.0, though being new to flex and with the docs for 3.0 somewhat thin now, not sure what I'll be able to figure out. I hope adobe provides some straightforward db oriented tutorials, web services play only a minor role in most of my fellow developer's workload, db

RE: [flexcoders] Flex for database apps; compare to .net

2007-11-14 Thread Samuel R. Neff
Flex does not talk to a database directly (except with AIR but I gather you're talking about a web app). Flex talks to a back end which then can talk to a database. Flex works really well with pretty much any back end, so if you're familiar with .NET stick to that, no reason to go to FDS/LCDS

Re: [flexcoders] Flex for database apps; compare to .net

2007-11-14 Thread Anatole Tartakovsky
Michael, You want to compare Eclipse vs VS, or Flex vs Silverlight In particular, if you are considering data centric application you will most likely need anothe Eclipse plugin that automates data access for Flex I am using (and adding functionality ) to Clear Data Builder (myflex.org).

Re: [flexcoders] Flex for database apps; compare to .net

2007-11-11 Thread Steve Hueners
On 11/10/07, Michael Pengi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read a couple of times that Visual Studio might be considered 'ahead' of Flex Builder. VS is a far more polished IDE than FB2 - FB3 will close the gap a bit but not all the way. But some interesting things are developing in