In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn about the DataGroup container and how to use two default Spark item renderer to define a uniform, repeatable display for each record in a dataset.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will define a value object as one of the arguments in an extended Event class. You will then instantiate both the value object and the custom event and dispatch the value object in the event object.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn how to create your own custom event types for those custom components.

In this episode of the Flex in a Week training series, you will learn how to pass data with a dispatched event by extending the Event class. You will learn why extending the Event class is necessary to avoid direct binding of data between components and how to clone the subclass to take advantage of the built-in event propagation functionality in Flex.

Platform Evangelist Mihai Corlan shows how to create components with Flash Builder 4 and ActionScript, and simplifies how to customize an event dispatch in a Flex 4 project.