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Featured Application: Aquarium

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A fun application using ASTRA components.
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A screencast on Yahoo! ActionScript 3 Maps.
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The Yahoo! Flash Developer Center is an ever growing collection of Flash tools, resources and information, all freely available for your use. Check back often for updates, and join the ydn-flash Yahoo! Group to exchange information with Flash developers just like yourself.

Yahoo! Flash Blog

Have We Got a Job For You

05/23/08, at 12:05 PM, by Allen Rabinovich

Connect the Dots: Astra Line Charts

05/14/08, at 09:05 AM, by Josh Tynjala

New and Updated Flash Components and ActionScript 3 Utilities in Yahoo! Astra 1.2

05/12/08, at 04:05 PM, by Josh Tynjala

Yahoo! Maps Example: Collaboration Using Blaze DS

04/29/08, at 02:04 PM, by Josh Tynjala

Building Flash Desktop Apps with Yahoo Widgets!

04/28/08, at 03:04 PM, by Tripp Bridges

YDN-Flash Yahoo! Group

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Re: Flickr Image Search

07/08/08, at 02:07 PM, by Josh Tynjala

Flickr Image Search

07/08/08, at 10:07 AM, by yellowstonedude

Tree text being trimmed...

07/07/08, at 08:07 AM, by ytn3rd

Re: Setting styles on branching menus

07/06/08, at 05:07 PM, by tripp.bridges

Setting styles on branching menus

07/06/08, at 02:07 PM, by ultimatebrent

ASTRA: ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications

ASTRA, the ActionScript Toolkit for Rich Applications, is a collection of Flash and Flex components, code libraries, toolkits and utilities developed by Yahoo! for ActionScript developers. These libraries available under the terms of the open source BSD license.

Flash Components

Yahoo! offers the ASTRA Flash components to complement the existing set provided in Adobe Flash CS3. These components are easily skinnable and fully documented, and wide selection of examples are available to help developers get started quickly.

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Flex Components

Yahoo! offers the ASTRA Flex components for use in your Adobe Flex 3 applications. These Flex components are designed to work like any other components for Flex with familiar properties, styles, and events. They're fully documented, and each component comes with multiple examples that demonstrate its various uses.

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Utilities Library

Yahoo! offers the ASTRA Utilities for use in any ActionScript-based project, whether in Flash CS3 or Flex Builder. These utility classes build a foundation for more advanced functionality in Rich Internet Applications that is portable across different frameworks and component sets.

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Web APIs Library

Our Yahoo! Web APIs package for ActionScript 3 and Flex allows you to connect your application to any one of a variety of data services provided by Yahoo!.

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Badge Kit

The Badge Kit is an XML-based framework for rapid development of small interactive Flash applications. You can learn how to use the Badge Kit very quickly, and most of the usage scenarios require no knowledge of Flash.