Customer Reviews

ASP.NET for Flash (Foundation)

5 star:		(2)
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A great primer on C# and installation of a local development environment using the free tools that Microsoft offered. All instructions and descriptions are step-by-step. Also includes important information on third-party Visual Studio components that allow you to send data between flash and .NET for pages that not completely inside the Flash interface. This book solidly provides multiple methods to interface with your flash applications using ASP.NET 2.0 with Flash remoting, Web services, and FlashVars... Highly Recommended.. Everything here as advertised!

I would like to make this short and sweet. Mr. Moore is at the forefront of the .net community. Without this book, I would have spent the next couple of years trying to learn all of what this book gives me, all for the price of taking my girlfriend to a movie! My offerings to my customers has expanded exponentially, and that, is what this is all about!

5 Stars!!!!

I've been a Flash developer for awhile now, have used it with PHP/ASP and other server technologies - but have avoided the learning curve of .Net. FOE books are great at giving you the basics so that you can get up and running quickly, and the tutorials in the book are usually spot-on for applying those basics. Read the book and did the exercises in one week, and now am writing basic Web Services, .dll files, and using remoting with Flash on a basic level - just as I thought I would after finishing the book. There are some typos and ommissions, which seems par for the course these days for technical books (does anybody proof read or edit these things?) - but if you have a genuine knowledge of Flash, you can overcome them pretty easily. Recommended.

It was clear I did not see the index close enough to see AS2 is used. Was looking for a book on integrating Flash AS3 and .NET. Search everywhere on the web looking for information. Everyone says you can use ASP but have no examples of HOWTO as I like to see actual coding. Only had this book for 2 days and all the information is old school.

This is, as far as I know, the only book available combing basic Flash with basic ASP.NET

Considering various ways to integrate Flash with other technologies / languages, this book offers a fairly clear cut approach to doing just that with ASP.NET. It is well written and provides various examples of the interaction. Online resources for this publication are also plenty. Very good resource for starters.

I thought this book will discuss all issues and will have a rich
ASP.NET solution for flash but it goes less than what I need
sure its cool as it names on but it doesn't cover what am looking
for from this title.

My attitude toward this book has NOTHING to do with ASP.net 2.0, nor even Flash. It has to do with this book. While the opening C# Primer is good (a very clean, simplistic quick run down on the basics with strings and arrays), as well I can tell the examples are solid enough you lost me right when we're told to down load Eclipse's little web server control. "Free for development, but ten bucks for unlimited usage...bla bla" Didn't we just spend our money buying your book so we could LEARN not buy more stuff? Ok, it's only ten bucks, but it's the principle of the matter.

Secondly, I think it's rather silly to have to use the code with some fancy web server control in the first place. That's rather cheap, if you ask me. For those who aren't too familiar with ASP.net yet: ASP.net isn't a language, it's the rendering mechanics for web applications in the .net framework. It's a bunch of fancy server controls (which are basically HTML like elements on steroids) that can either be hard coded, like HTML (but that sort of defeats the purpose), or programmatic activated through a .net programming language. This language is then a separate entity (which can be VB.net, or in the case of this book, C#...A very fine, fine language) from the ASP.net server controls, but it works together.

In a nut shell, you don't actually need much of ASP.net's presentation layer (AKA, the page where you put the server controls). If any one is familiar with classic ASP, Response.Write("hello") (which is the equivalent of echo "hello"; in PHP) is all that you'd really need in a .net environment using Flash interfaces.

On a more sophisticated level, you could learn some ADO.net, learn how to mess around with some SQL/XML out putting, and go that route to your Flash movie as well.

So, the final verdict: I'll do the example, just for practice. But I can easily just make a User Control for my flash movies, put to practice what I said there, and VIOLA...no need to pay you ten bucks.

However, for those that are in a bind, and need to Implement a Flash interface into a .net project (for what ever reason), here's a work around:

I'd recommend getting Foundation PHP 5 for Flash by David Powers. Most web hosting solutions that are on Windows will have both .net and PHP installed. Learn how to work with Flash Movies via PHP, then you can embed your Flash movie in your ASP.net files (via a User Control...), and have your PHP files sitting with your ASP.net files in the same app (Trust me, nothing will go wrong nor explode)...This may sound gratuitous, but it really isn't.

However, I'm going to translate David's code into C#, come up with my own projects and then embark on developing my own book on the subject.