Getting started with the Flex compiler

Starting out with Flex, I used the command-line compiler of the open source Adobe Flex 3 SDK for compiling MXML and ActionScript source files into SWF files.
A full list of compiler options and default behaviours are available in the Flex 3 documentation, but following is a summary to get going, including some links on Flex [...]

Auto-generate a data access layer in C# and T-SQL from a SQL database

DataTierGenerator is a .NET desktop app that generates a C# class, a C# data class and several SQL stored procs for every table in the database you specify. This takes a lot of the hassle out of creating a data layer for a multi-tier application – all you have to do is tweak the logic [...]