Great Flex Samples with Christophe's Salesbuilder Application

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Christophe Coenraets has updated his Salesbuilder application with a number of unique features that would appeal to any Flex developer. (The application is an Adobe AIR application that he's built with Flex Builder.) Salesbuilder is sample sales force automation application for managing sales leads, including the ability to manage accounts, contacts and opportunities.

Technically, the application contains a number of important features that highlight the unique abilities of Flex and Adobe AIR. For instance, dragging and dropping a graph from the dashboard view will create a .jpg of the graph. This works if you drag and drop the graph to your desktop, for example, or to a Word document. Very cool.

Switching from graph view to table view shows off another drag and drop feature: importing the data from a Flex application into an Excel worksheet.

Head over to Christophe's blog and check out the sample. Read the instructions carefully, because some of the navigation in the application isn't hooked up yet, and some things won't be clear if you don't follow along with what he's written. If you're interested in what you can do with Flex and Adobe AIR, this is a great sample application for you.