Having worked with Flex long enough there are definitely times I get really annoyed when Flex does something I feel is counter intuitive or when I have to go around a pretty complicated process to do something that I feel would be trivial in Flash. But given a limited time frame for a project, I usually default to a Flex project as opposed to a pure AS3 project just since there are so many conveniences in the framework.

I am curious how the rest of the Flex community feels now that Flex has been out there for a while and the “new-and-shiny” effect has worn off. So I would like to ask, the following question: What is your favorite feature of the Flex framework. Below is a poll widget but it may be restrictive to your answer, so feel free to comment or elaborate on what you love/hate about the framework.

Thanks all

Two+ hours wasted today on dealing with this. Apparently when using URLVariables to pass variables to the server using HTTP Post, using the square bracket syntax ( vars[varname] = varvalue ) sets the contentType of the URLRequest to text/html. However setting the same variables using the dot syntax (vars.varname = varvalue) sets it to text/xml. I couldn’t set the contentType to text/xml using the [] notation no matter how I tried, whether using the URLRequest.contentType property or appending a custom “Content-Type”,”text/xml” URLRequestHeader.

Hope this helps someone.