Ext

One of the key additions in Ext 2.0.2 was Adobe AIR 1.0 support for running in the application sandbox. Also, the Simple Tasks AIR application sample was rewritten to take advantage of more of the native functionality in AIR and gained some cool custom Ext components that can be used outside of AIR.

Coolite Studio is an Ext official suite of ASP.NET Web Controls based on the Ext JavaScript Framework.

I regularly hit technorati, DZone and Google looking for recent Ext JS related blog posts. There’s always quite a bit going on in the blogsphere and we are going to start sharing the interesting ones we find here on the Ext JS Blog. Here are some of the ones I have recently read.

The Ext 2.0 API is very extensive and remembering all of the functions, properties or configs available is virtually impossible. The API documentation is very thorough, but it would be nice if IDEs would provide code assist options in JavaScript as they do in other languages such as Java and C#. Luckily, there are some IDEs and plugins available that do just that — and also have direct support for Ext 2.0.