This book covers in detail one of the most important aspects of Flex 2: bringing data into applications from various sources and manipulating and presenting that data. It covers all the major possible data sources, including XML, Flex Data Services, and PHP, ASP.NET, and ColdFusion server-side applications.


The first half of the book starts with a brief exploration of Flex and ActionScript 3.0, before looking at application essentials in detail, including creating custom components, user and web browser interactions, binding, formatting and validating data, debugging, and more. The second half of the book focuses on connecting Flex to data sources and covers XML, Flex Data Services, PHP, ASP.NET, and ColdFusion in detail, via a series of step-by-step case studies.