Have you ever wished you had an evangelist by your side every day? Oh… Really? Now that’s just weird ;-) But seriously, it’s always a good thing to be able to tap in to someone’s brain when you get stuck on something or forgot about a component’s capabilities and properties. Or maybe you just want to browse the Flex component library to get an idea of its power and possibilities.

Enter the downloadable evangelist Tour de Flex, a really cool AIR application that showcases core Flex components, AIR capabilities, Flex data access (BlazeDS and LiveCycle Data Services), numerous coding techniques, cloud APIs, and a growing list of community-developed components, effects, skins, and more. There are currently 217 code samples in the application but since this is an AIR application, it’s obvious that we will be updating that with new samples on a regular basis.

Tour De Flex also comes with an Eclipse plugin that allows the various samples to be searched directly from an Eclipse view window.

If you are at MAX, come and find one of us (we’re wearing a Tour de Flex shirt today) to get one of the Tour De Flex USB sticks or go ahead and download it from http://flex.org/tour.

Kudos to Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets and James Ward who started this idea.