Amethyst Visual Studio IDE for the Flash Platform – Released!
This is really great news for all the Visual Studio fans that want to do Flash/Flex development with their favorite IDE. Amethyst IDE brings the really incredible feature set of Visual Studio to the Flash/Flex world. I really love how it handles component AS3 in a separate file. I wish something similar was available out of the box with Flash Builder! Really, really incredible!
Key Features of Amethyst Professional:
- Powerful editor with code coloring (76 options) and code folding
- Customizable code formatting
- IntelliSense with code completion and auto-expanding snippets
- Drag-and-drop Designer for Flex and AIR
- Designer integrates with Property panels, Event panels and Layout toolbar
- Multi-level undo/redo in editor and Designer
- Fast ‘Cylon’ debugger with breakpoints and call stack
- Step into/over/out in Debugger
- Conditional breakpoints and break-on-hitcount
- Expression evaluation in Immediate and Watch windows
- Hover and drill-down debugging in editor and Watch windows
- Debug multiple SWFs concurrently
- Find All References/Go To Definition
- Quick-find ToDo comments and User Tasks
- Auto-generate getter/setter ‘property’ methods
- Sophisticated refactoring with rename, move to package and refactoring previewer
- Source control support (TeamServer etc.)
- Import FLA to edit and debug Flash IDE projects
- Convert existing Flex or Flash Builder projects
All that is available at $249.
Check out this video of the Amethyst IDE in action:
So… I need the Visual Studio for that, which is quite expensive, isn’t it? Is this worth the cost?
Jay
3 Sep 10 at 3:54 pm
Let me answer that question. Most of our users already have a commercial edition of Visual Studio (the one that comes with C#, VB etc). However, it is also possible to install Amethyst into the Visual Studio Shell Edition and I know that some Amethyst users are doing this. The VS Shell is an edition of VS which comes without the default Microsoft languages. So if you install Amethyst into it, you will have a version of VS that supports Flash/Flex but not C#/VB. The VS Shell can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=40646580-97FA-4698-B65F-620D4B4B1ED7&displaylang=en
Huw Collingbourne
3 Sep 10 at 5:16 pm
The big question is can I use resharper with it?
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29 Jul 11 at 1:12 pm