[web] Flash/ASP.NET interaction

Flash 9 supports sockets, so you can write a normal networking app if it's fast. real-time stuff. For more traditional things, Flash supports AJAX and normal HTTP.

There are also libraries around to do such things.

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Original post by d000hg Flash 9 supports sockets, so you can write a normal networking app if it's fast. real-time stuff. For more traditional things, Flash supports AJAX and normal HTTP. There are also libraries around to do such things.

It doesn't need to be fast, so I don't really need to write a networking app, I just need Flash to be able to talk to an ASP.NET back-end, preferably without posting back the whole page.

Straightforward AJAX or other HTTP requests should be fine then.

One way is to write ASP.net pages which simply write XML rather than HTML. When you request this page using AJAX, you can then (very easily) access the returned XML as objects in Flash.

In fact, you can probably call the ASP.net page automatically using a loader of some sort to load the URL. You might even be able to do the equivalent of : var xml:XML = loader.load("somePage.aspx")

For ActionScript 3, check the URLLoader class in the flash.net namespace. It doesn't rely on a particular data format, but XML is often preferred.

I know you said you didn't need a persistent connection, but if you ever change your mind feel free to pick at my brain - I've made a real time avatar chat (soon to be game) using Flash CS3 and C#.Net 2.0.

I used flash's new Binary Sockets to do it.

The server processes the 'rules' and client is only used for display. I tried to code both client and server to be re-usable - so at this time the code isn't really game specific.

Otherwise, as someone else already said, AJAX would be the way to go. You can send any amount of data back and forth. A single AJAX page with an MVC type controller could handle quite a lot of different requests.

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Original post by WanMaster For ActionScript 3, check the URLLoader class in the flash.net namespace. It doesn't rely on a particular data format, but XML is often preferred.

Ah yes, that was the kind of thing I meant. I think there's an equivalent in the Flex/AIR API as well.