Reputation: 123

Is there an actionscript extension for visual studio?

I prefer the VS IDE over flex builder.

Upvotes: 4

Answers (8)

Philippe

Reputation: 2631

There used to be a few alternative commercial VS plugins for Flex dev but they have all disappeared. IntelliJ IDEA and the official (mostly unsupported) Adobe Flex IDE are the only commercial remaining offerings.

As suggested there is the free and opensource FlashDevelop IDE which is inspired by Visual Studio:

http://flashdevelop.org

Upvotes: 6

Zack Brown

Reputation: 91

Yes! Code drive!

http://www.codedrive.com/

Upvotes: 2

anatoly

Reputation: 350

Try CodeDrive - new ActionScript 3 IDE for Visual Studio. CodeDrive has its own(!) ActionScript 3 compiler with full language support. It seems to work 2-3 times faster than Flex SDK or Flash IDE.

Advanced coding features are also included - code completion, syntax coloring, error highlighting, flashlog viewer, etc.

http://www.codedrive.com/

Upvotes: 0

Huw Collingbourne

Reputation: 21

We now have a feature list so you can compare the free version of Amethyst (Flash Platform IDE for Visual Studio) with the commercial edition: http://www.sapphiresteel.com/spip.php?page=amethyst-feature-list

Hope that helps

Huw

Upvotes: 0

Huw Collingbourne

Reputation:

We will shortly launch the final version of the Amethyst Flash Platform IDE for Visual Studio. There will be a free (edit+debug) release plus a commercial release with a visual design environment, extensive code formatting, refactoring, simultaneous multi-SWF debugging, extensive IntelliSense and integration with the Flash IDE.

More info on our web site: http://www.sapphiresteel.com

best wishes

Huw Collingbourne SapphireSteel Software

Upvotes: 0