Amethyst Product Page

Amethyst is a powerful Flash Platform development environment for Visual Studio. To create a Flex application using Amethyst you can simply drag components from the Toolbox into the Amethyst Designer, double-click to auto-create an event handler, add some code then run or debug.

Amethyst provides all the tools you would expect from a professional-quality Visual Studio development product including:

 IntelliSense
 Drill-down debugger
 Code Refactoring
 Customizable Code Formatting
 Auto-expanding Snippets
 Drag-and-Drop application design
 Align controls to ‘alignment bars’
 Align controls to a customizable grid
 Round-tripping between the Designer and Code Editor
 Import/Convert Wizard for existing Flex or Flash Builder projects

The Amethyst Designer, code editor and debugger are seamlessly integrated into Visual Studio. Amethyst allows you to use the familiar Visual Studio tools such as the Properties panel, the Events panel, the Alignment Toolbar, the Solution Explorer, Project and Global Property dialogs, the Task List, Go To Definition, Find All References, the Object Browser and more besides...

Amethyst is a product of SapphireSteel Software, a software company specializing in Visual Studio programming tools, notably the Ruby on Rails environment, Ruby In Steel.

Amethyst will be released in two editions in early 2010: The commercial edition, Amethyst Professional, and a free edition, Amethyst Personal. Amethyst Professional will include a full suite of professional quality tools including the Amethyst Designer, extensive code refactoring, powerful IntelliSense and a world-class debugger. Amethyst Personal will provide a more limited range of editing and debugging features.

 A Brief Guide To Amethyst (start here!)
 Amethyst (beta) Download Page
 Using the Amethyst Designer
 Amethyst Tutorials