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August 14, 2007
Desktop RSS with AIR and Spry
Notorious Aussie rebel Andrew Muller has written up a great article on building an AIR RSS viewer using Adobe's Spry framework for the plumbing. Although he's using Aptana in the article, Dreamweaver users have it just as easy (if not a bit easier) following the same steps, as obviously Spry's much more integrated with DW CS3 than any other dev tool at the moment. You just need to grab the Adobe AIR extension for Dreamweaver CS3, which you can pick up for free (in beta form) at Adobe Labs.
Minor modifications to use Andrew's article with DW CS3:
- Install the AIR Extension for DW CS3 via the Extension Manager.
- I suggest creating a unique site definition for each AIR app, to help keep assets managed well
- Build the RSS application in Spry using either Andrew's explicit instructions in code, or supplement that workflow with the visual Spry tools in Dreamweaver for a richer coding/GUI experience
- Preview the application using Dreamweaver's "Preview in Browser" toolbar menu > "Preview in Adobe AIR"
- Package the application using the "Package in Adobe AIR" command from Dreamweaver's Site menu.
Simple, quick and easy! And great little article to get your feet wet with AIR and Spry. Make sure to give Andrew some props if you like the walkthrough.
Posted by sfegette at August 14, 2007 09:51 AM
Comments
I just bought DWcs3 and tried it to do some aspx sites. But after got the access database connected,I have to deploy supporting files to testing server's /bin folder. Got a message "no file to be deployed".
Called the aspx page in the browser, that's why got a error message:
Parser Error
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.
Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'DreamweaverCtrls, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=836f606ede05d46a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Source Error:
Line 1:
Line 2:
Line 3:
Line 4: id="dsCatalogs"
Source File: /testsite/5-001.aspx Line: 2
Assembly Load Trace: The following information can be helpful to determine why the assembly 'DreamweaverCtrls, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=836f606ede05d46a' could not be loaded.
WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.
To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.
Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.
To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].
But not sure how to fix this problem, would you please help me out this problem.
By the way your Ajax online seminar was really helpful, I was watching it on 8/21/07. Great job!
Thanks alot!
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Posted by: beckmann at August 22, 2007 02:19 PM