Hi-
I'm just starting to do some research into Flash Remoting and figure out
what exactly it's all about. Unfortunately, macromedia's marketing jargon
isn't much help.... The simple question i'm trying to answer is this:

Does Flash Remoting provide the 'gateway' to an existing .Net Remoting
interface? Or are code modifications *necessary* (i.e. imported dll's,
custom flash interfaces) on the .NET side to make an application "Flash
Remotable"?

I have gotten a chance to mess around with FlashRC
http://www.simeda.com/flashrc/
which seems very cool and much, much cheaper than Macromedia's. However to
use this, you import a dll and write specific code to serve up objects for
flash to access (through included actionscript files). In essence, all it
does is create a behind the scenes XML protocol and socket interface which
both the flash and .NET can interpret.

Ideally i'm looking to create only ONE .NET Remoting interface that both
Flash AND .NET client apps can access. This way no need to maintain two
separate server-side interface layers.

Thanks.

Hi,

Flash Remoting is an interface as you must be knowing, between Flash and .NET
and you can pass generic objects
back and forth which can be interpreted by both Flash and .NET like XML string
etc. And if you have Flash Remoting for .NET installed you don't have to do
much except the coding for repoting call.

Good Luck

Hemendra Singh Shaktawat

Mindfire Solutions
ww.mindfiresolutions.com

hi
to work with FlashMx remoting, you need the following
Microsoft Framework SDK,
Flash Remoting components for Flash( install this in flash)
Flash Remoting for .Net(install this in .Net Frame work)
these flash products are avil in Macromedia site
feel free to ask
we are glad to reply
bai

thanks for everyone's replies, however no one has directly answered my
questions:

Does Flash Remoting provide the 'gateway' to an existing .Net Remoting
interface? Or are code modifications *necessary* (i.e. imported dll's,
custom flash interfaces) on the .NET side to make an application "Flash
Remotable"?

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I've been working with Flash Remoting and .NET for a few months now. My
experience has been rocky. It took us a while to get it working, we are using
virtual hosting on our sever and Macromedia's documentation and examples for
..NET are very poor.

As for coding. If you want to use flash remoting with a dll, you have to
'reference' a flashGateway.dll to have access to a few flash object. So I'd
say there is a bit of extra code that needs to be included specific to Flash.
Also any dll that you want to use with Flash must be in the flashremoting
directory that gets created when it's installed. This may be a problem.