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VFx –> Visual Flex –> Visual Studio Flex –> Visual Studio plugin for Flex development.

A plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio which helps to develop Flex applications for .Net. Pleasure to write about Tofino created by Ensemble. That’s real awesome.

This can never replace the Flex Builder, but can help companies which cannot afford $699.

A brief intro What Ensemble Says about Tofino -

” Ensemble Tofino for Visual Studio is a plugin that enables .NET developers to create Flex front ends for their applications in the same IDE that they normally use. Instead of using a separate text or XML editor and manually invoking the compiler, they can move smoothly between MXML and .NET file types within Visual Studio, and invoke Flex build and run commands from Visual Studio menus. Download Tofino 1.2009.02.10 including Flex SDK (122MB) or Download Tofino 1.2009.02.10 without Flex SDK (4MB)”

We can create, build, debug and release as we normally do in Flex Builder. Can add the regular Flex application types to the Flex project. The folder structure, intellisense, default file launch are included which feels great while coding within Visual Studio IDE.

On a whole, it’s a real treat for VS developers and cost-cutting companies.