Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed: Working with Windows

Creating windows in Adobe® AIR applications is a significant departure from traditional webcentric Adobe® Flex development. For starters, Adobe AIR applications run on the user’s desktop. So the “windows” we’re referring to originate from the underlying native operating system, as with any other desktop software. Web developers no longer need to rely on Adobe Flex [...]

XML and .NET Namespaces Collide in XAML

The term namespace is overloaded: the same word has different meanings in different contexts. (Or does that mean it’s polymorphic? Hmm…) In .NET, a namespace is a place where classes and other namespaces are logically contained– a bit like folders in a file system. And, also like folders, the namespace defines the context in which [...]