Flash Builder Pleasant Surprises

I was recently asked to put together a "Getting Started with Flex" tutorial to share with other developers in my enterprise. Although we are a large, nation-wide organization, I may be one of the few Flex developers among the respective IT organizations. I thought a good starting point might be references to the excellent videos at Adobe.com ("Build a Flex app in an Hour"). I'd never really watched in full any of the tutorials on the Adobe site to be perfectly honest. For the few years that I've been developing in Flex, I've generally lived in source code mode preferring to code much of my applications by hand. I guess it's my control freak nature. However, I was really impressed with just how little code a beginning Flex developer has to write in Flash Builder 4. After watching a few of the videos, I put together a quick and dirty example application without touching any of the generated source code. The app included a datagrid and data entry form both bound to data services generated by the Flash Builder wizards. I literally did NOTHING but drag and drop and point Flash Builder to a couple of pre-written CFCs on my ColdFusion server. It was incredible! I ran the app and, without a hitch, it rendered a simple CRUD app in the browser (in far less than an hour I might add). I may actually use some of these features to generate app stubs to get the ball rolling on new projects. I can't wait to see what 4.5 brings.