Flash Visual Studio IDE, Amethyst 1.5 Preview Released

Amethyst 1.5 represents a major update to our Visual Studio-based IDE for Flash, Flex and AIR development. The last version of Amethyst (1.2) was released on February the 1st and is available from the Amethyst Download page. In the months since then we have released ten public betas leading towards this first preview of Amethyst 1.5. The preview software includes numerous bug fixes and enhancements suggested by our beta testers plus dozens of new features including:

 Support for mobile (Android, Blackberry, iOS) development and deployment
 Improved support of Flex 4 and 4.5 including Flex 4 states
 New compiler service for faster compilation
 Improved simultaneous debugging of mixed Flash/.NET and ASP Web site projects
 Improved support of locales, non-English projects, RSLs
 Substantially improved support for named Build configurations
 Major improvements to the project importer (now imports Flash Builder properties and entire workspaces)
 Support for very large projects

For a full list of changes and improvements (and also to download the 1st Preview of Amethyst 1.5) see the Amethyst Release History page.