This is just a quick note concerning how you as a developer can approach the installation process of a CF Builder extension during development. Of course, while what you will eventually distribute to the world is a zip file containing your extension it doesn’t make much sense that you would need to zip and install the extension yourself with each update that you make during the development process.

CF Builder makes this process very simple in that it re-compiles the files with each save so that you don’t even need to use the Extensions view in CF Builder (although you should do an actual overwrite using the Extensions view when you have something complete). Anyways, just wanted to make sure that it was clear that you can develop and test your extension as if you were developing and testing in the browser. It may not seem like much, but it’s actually a really cool feature that makes our lives that much easier.