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In Flex 2, it's pretty safe to say that we are presented with the largest framework ever developed for the Flash platform. What that means for us as developers is that we have more power at our fingertips than ever before to build larger, more robust applications. At the same time, it means that in order to use the framework at more than a surface level, we need to learn a lot about the framework API, as well as how to use the framework to build the custom bits and pieces that every project requires (i.e., components). If you've looked at the number of components and classes in the Flex framework, this appears to be a daunting task.

Adobe has done a great job of documenting the framework (my new best friend is the Flex Language Reference), but sometimes you need to muck around a bit to make the framework do what you need it to do in any given situation.

[Flexcerpts 201] is a series of posts that aims to break down the framework into bits (excerpts) and try to understand these bits better. If we can understand enough of these bits, hopefully we'll have gained a stronger understanding of the framework as a whole and how we can do things like extend components or maximize the use of existing ones.

Watch this space for posts in the coming days and weeks...