Hidden Features of MXML

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Published on 2010-05-15T14:21:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 14:24 UTC
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What are some of the hidden features of MXML?

MXML being used in Flex Framework became quite popular language (because Flash Player is something every PC has and Flash Builder, Flash Catalist are quite popular Adobe programms)

So at least from the existing features, do you know any that are not well known but very useful.

Of course, this question is along the lines of:

Hidden Features of ActionScript
Hidden Features of JavaScript
Hidden Features of CSS
Hidden Features of C#
Hidden Features of VB.NET
Hidden Features of Java
Hidden Features of ASP.NET
Hidden Features of Python
Hidden Features of TextPad
Hidden Features of Eclipse
Hidden Features of HTML

Please specify one feature per answer.

Note that it's not always a great idea to use these hidden features; often times they are surprising and confusing to others reading your code.

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