Again, I wrote a short review again for the book: Macromedia Flash MX Upgrade Essentials.

Written by Sham Bhangal Published by: friends of Ed ISBN: 1903450764 430 pages

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Macromedia Flash MX Upgrade Essentials is everything you need to know about all the features which make Flash MX worth the upgrade. It's a great effective & efficient guide to Flash MX. Sham Bhangal is a great explainer and he takes you on a power-users' trip through the seriously cool areas of the MX release and uncovers the new features in great depth and detail. The book explains why Flash MX will stand out as a pivotal version and let's you harness the power of Flash MX fast without having to go over old ground.

Because Flash MX has evolved into an application tool, the upgrade essentials is designed to help you get the maximum benefit from Flash MX in the minimum time and discusses what the new enhanced features really mean in the wider Flash MX/web design perspective. Flash MX Upgrade Essentials examines the changes, improvements, shortcuts and complexities, and presents them clearly in rich context.

Assuming that you are quite comfortable and competent with Flash 5, this book gets you up to speed with Flash MX and does the filtering work for you. It uncovers the wealth of new features of Flash MX, such as the new interface, heavily reinforced ActionScript capabilities, enhanced video and multimedia support, accessibility and usability elements, and a formidable object-based programming paradigm that could change the way you think about Flash and ActionScript.

Flash MX Upgrade Essentials offers the most efficient way of getting up to speed with Flash MX and it achieves what its' title suggests.