I’m about to start an AIR project for a client and I knew that the first thing I’d want to enable was auto updating. The thought of sending out a new .air file ever other day just wasn’t an option. And of course even after the project is complete there will be updates to make. The client will be happy to see how easy it is to update their installed application through the development process.

Mihai Corlan wrote a very concise and helpful tutorial on adding this functionality to a new or existing AIR app. I went from start to finish on his tutorial in about 15 minutes - and it was 15 minutes well spent.

If you want to know more about what’s new in the AIR 1.1 update then read Ryan Stewarts post.

I was thinking maybe a better title for this post would have been: Using the AIR 1.1 Updater Framework, so easy even a Silverlight developer could do it. What do you think?

Pamelia Kurstin plays a musical instrument called the theremin. ( Pronounced: th-AIR-e’men ) Adobe needs to hook up with her for their next AIR tour. If I have to explain why then please exit the blog through the back door. :-)

And if you were at Grant Skinner’s 2006 presentation at FlashForward in Seattle then you’re probably thinking the same thing I am: these two need to put on a show together.

I’m creating an Apollo app that loads a SWF (Player version 8) that has a ComboBox in it. When I run the Apollo app and select the ComboBox it opens as you would expect but when you select one of the labels it reports the wrong selection - most of the time. The selection is always something below the selection that you clicked on, or occasionally it gets it right.

Here’s the Apollo code:

And you can download the dropDown files here.

NOTE: check the date of this post. It’s an April Fools joke. I had no idea this article was so popular until I checked my site stats. My apologizes to anyone I might have misled. Anyhow, I still think it’s pretty funny.

An anonymous source from Adobe has confirmed that they have a final release name for the Apollo project. It’s going to be called Adobe Desktop Presentation Foundation, or Adobe DPF for short.

He said that they wanted to go with a name that was more evocative but since this product competes with Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation they decided to go with a product name that was long and bland.

He also confirmed that a lite version of Apollo will be released for cell phones early next year. It will be called Adobe DPF/e. He said that the ‘e’ doesn’t really stand for anything. It’s just there to confuse people.