I’ve seen a number of people ask how to install the Flex SDK 3.3 + Data Visualizations 3.3 SWC, so I thought I’d give some quick direcetions since it’s not on Adobe’s download site for the Flex 3.3 SDK.

1. Download both the Flex 3.3 SDK and the Flex 3.3 Data Visualizations Components (”DVC”).
2. Unzip them both somewhere on your local hard drive — I have all my SDKs for Flex in ~/dev/flex/sdks/<versionNumber>.
3. Navigate into the DVC folder you just expanded and find the following files:
   • ../frameworks/libs/datavisualization.swc
   • ../frameworks/locale/en_US/datavisualization_rb.swc
   • ../frameworks/locale/ja_JP/datavisualization_rb.swc
   • ../frameworks/rsls/datavisualization_3.3.0.4852.swf
   • ../frameworks/rsls/datavisualization_3.3.0.4852.swz
   • ../libs/DMV-source.jar
4. Now that you know where they are what you need from the DVC SDK, copy each one into the corresponding folders for the actual Flex 3.3 framework that you expanded earlier. So on my machine, I’d copy the datavisualization.swc from the DVC SDK to the Flex SDK like so:
   • ~/dev/flex/sdks/3.3/flex_sdk_3/frameworks/libs/datavisualization.swc

   to

   • ~/dev/flex/sdks/datavisualization_sdk3.3/frameworks/libs/datavisualization.swc
5. To use the new 3.3 SDK for a particular project, open up Flex Builder and click Project -> Properties -> Flex Compiler and click on the link on the right to “Configure Flex SDKs…”

   • 

     Flex Compiler -> SDK Config

6. Browse to the Flex 3.3 SDK you just finished unpacking and adding the DVC files to and click OK.
7. You can select this new SDK as your default here or just select this as the SDK for this project.
8. Done.

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