Digimmersion has released their newest version of Visio stencils for Flex 2.  The visio stencil will allow you to rapidly mockup a new Flex 2 application using  61 drag and drop objects.  The objects are styled in halo blue and are very accurate to the new Flex 2 default style.  There is a $20 fee for the stencil and is a free uphrage to anyone who purchased the 1.5 version.  Visit the Flex 2 page at Digimmersion for more information.

The Flex 2.0 Beta 2 is now available for public use.  There have been hunderds of bug fixes and enhancements since beta 1.  Go get it and post your comments here.

The Flex 2 Style Explorer is now available for download as well as online.  This is an excellent way to see how the new style properties work.

Adobe has released a new library called the Flex Ajax Bridge which is a wrapper class making the ExternalInterface easier to utilize in your applications.  ExternalInterface is a way to connect Flex 2 to Javascript. See these samples:
http://everythingflex.wordpress.com/2006/01/17/open-popup-window-from-flex-15/
http://everythingflex.wordpress.com/2005/11/04/open-flex-window-from-flex/
http://everythingflex.wordpress.com/2005/10/26/flex-2-externalinterface-api-sample/

Updated for Flex FDS

After struggling for a while to get my webservice setup under FES FDS, I finally got all working properly last week so I thought I would post some insight.

Here is the config that you will need to use for FES FDS:

Add an entry like this to your flex-proxy-service.xml proxy-config.xml file:
<destination id=”myWS” adapter=”soap-proxy”>
<properties>
<wsdl>http://www.whatever.com/Mywebservice.wsdl</wsdl>
<soap>http://www.whatever.com/Mywebservice*</soap>
</properties>
</destination>

Now restart your FES FDS server.

Next add a webservice tag to your application using the id as the  destination

<mx:WebService id=”myWS”
destination=”myWS”
useProxy=”true”
showBusyCursor=”true”
concurrency=”single”
result=”mx.controls.Alert.show( event.result )”
fault=”mx.controls.Alert.show( event.fault)”>
</mx:WebService>

Call your methods using myWS as the identifier. Ex: myWS.myMethod();

Note:  If you wish to use a named service within FlexBuilder (non FES FDS application) you will need to add an argument to your Flex Compiler arguments under the project properties:
mxmlc –services=./mypath/to/flex-enterprise-services.xml etc