Enter your ActionScript 2.0 Garage. When you come out you'll be a lean, mean, ActionScriptin' machine!

Top ActionScripter Dan Livingston shows you code, teaches you skills, and inflames your passion to create "do-the-impossible" Flash content. It's all here: forms, validation, styles, skins, data integration, XML, RSS, classes, objects, events, listeners, menu systems, masks, preloaders, ActionScript 2.0 architecture, UI components, and more — all with serious downloadable code examples. Inspired. Stunningly useful. Think 'zine. Think blog. But, please, do not think of any other ActionScript book you've ever seen.

Specific topics covered include

* Enhancing data components to manipulate complicated sets of data
* Using MX to connect to SOAP based web services
* Creating RSS aggregators and readers
* Building shopping carts and online reservation systems
* Exploring the updates and enhancements in ActionScript 2.0

If you're a Flash designer and programmer who wants to hit the ground running, this fun, informative guide will take you to the next level!