// retrieve the sessioned user
   var user:YahooUser = _session.getSessionedUser();
   
   // add connections response event listeners
   user.connections.addEventListener(YahooResultEvent.GET_CONNECTIONS_SUCCESS, handleConnectionsSuccess);
   user.connections.addEventListener(YahooResultEvent.GET_CONNECTIONS_FAILURE, handleConnectionsFailure);
   user.connections.getConnections(0,50);
  
   function handleConnectionsSuccess(event:YahooResultEvent):void
   {
    var connections:Array = event.data as Array;
    // do something
   }
  
   function handleConnectionsFailure(event:YahooResultEvent):void
   {
    // do something 
   }