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Amethyst is a powerful Flash Platform development environment for Visual Studio 2010 and 2008. To create a Flex application using Amethyst you can simply drag components from the Toolbox into the Amethyst Designer, double-click to auto-create an event handler, add some code then run or debug.

Amethyst supports team development with multiple-project solutions, named build configurations, incremental compilation and integration with TeamServer. It can share a codebase with other IDEs including Flash Builder and Flex Builder to allow teams to work on a project using a mix of development tools. Amethyst imports Flash IDE (e.g. CS4/CS5) projects so that animators may continue working on timeline-based development in the Flash IDE while programmers have access to Amethyst’s advanced editor and debugger.

The Amethyst Designer, code editor and debugger are seamlessly integrated into Visual Studio. Amethyst allows you to use the familiar Visual Studio tools such as the Properties panel, the Events panel, the Alignment Toolbar, the Solution Explorer, Project and Global Property dialogs, the Task List, Go To Definition, Find All References, the Object Browser and more besides.

Features

Amethyst provides all the tools you would expect from a professional-quality Visual Studio development product including:

• IntelliSense
• Drill-down debugger
• Code Refactoring
• Customisable Code Formatting
• Auto-expanding Snippets
• Drag-and-Drop application design
• Align controls to ‘alignment bars’
• Align controls to a customizable grid
• Round-tripping between the Designer and Code Editor
• Import/Convert Wizard for existing Flex or Flash Builder projects
• Share code with the Flash IDE to edit and debug Flash projects with Amethyst