Question

What could be good question to decide if candidate has strong or atleast fair knowledge working with Flex and ActionScript.

Answer 1

1. What is difference between [Binding] , [Binding(“eventName”)]
2. What is difference between x:XClass = XClass(y) and x:XClass = y as XClass
3. How to set style values in action script
4. What is ChangeWatcher, suppose ChangeWatcher does not exist, can you create one?
5. How to access query string parameter of html hosting your flex app
6. What is of labelFunction in List,DataGridColumn etc, how to use it
7. How to use inline anonymous functions, and when to use
8. Show an example of how will you use Function as arguments to methods
9. What does operator >>>, ===, !== do?
10. What is difference between encodeURI and encodeURIComponent
11. How to do conditional compiling like #ifdef and #define in “C/C++/C#”
12. What is difference between for..in and for each..in
13. What does with keyword do
14. Is there “Long” data type in flex (NO)
15. How to set “#text” element of given element name in XML e.g. below…

how to add #text of child in

<parent><child/></parent> 

as

<parent><child>child text</child></parent>

given name of child will be determined at runtime..

var x:XML = <parent><child/></parent>;
var n:String = "child";

Answer is

x.*[n] = "child text";