If you working with manipulating movie clips and bitmaps when dealing with the new BitmapData object you should learn about transformation matrix.
This will help you alot. Senocular.com write for us an articles about transformation matrix in FP8.

Full online article
Download in PDF format

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Another great work by Guy Watson of flashguru
http://www.ifbin.com/news/2005/09/flash-8-isometric-webcam
-isocam-by-guy.html

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Extending drag and drop component by Darron Schall.

If you already watch this:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/demos.aspx
aslo this:
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/interactive_
designer/id_features.aspx
or this:
http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=115387

May be you have the same opinion with me. “Ms try to kill Flash?”. May be not 100% right but this should be insteresting. Here some related topics:
1. http://www.actionscript.com/index.php/fw/1/sparkle-v-flash-the-
showdown/
2. http://www.rootburn.com/2005/09/sparkle-office.html
3. http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/private/flashcomm/2005-
September/027245.html
4. http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/pipermail/flashcoders/2005-
September/149318.html
5. http://www.ericd.net/2005_09_11_blogger_archive.inc#11268381277
1460591
6. http://www.jessewarden.com/archives/2005/09/
sparkle_hype_th.html
7. http://justin.everett-church.com/index.php/2005/09/
15/sparkle-hmmm
8. http://www.valveblog.com/2005/09/sparkle_quit_it.html

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If you already seen Flash 8 examples built by Guy Watson of Flashguru. Now he shared the source files.

http://www.flashguru.co.uk/flash-8-source-files/

Getting start using Flash 8, will be easier if you also read the articles at Devnet

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/

Online interview by Baba Flash the biggest Indonesian Flash Community.

http://www.babaflash.com/interview2.asp?interviewid=22

Setelah ditunggu-tunggu akhirnya Flash Profesional 8 dirilis di pasaran. Kamu bisa membeli atau mendapatkan versi trial untuk keperluan test.

I got this from Tom Mulder, member of FlashComm mailinglist. He took the photo’s during presentation of FMS2 on IBC 2005

http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkseed/

Sorenson Squeeze 4.2 Windows Public Beta has been released:
http://www.sorensonmedia.com/misc/beta.php