I am gathering information as far as developing a site with a Flash front end & Visual Basic .NET backend without using Flash Remoting.
A good example would be to input a search string into Flash’s equivalent of a textbox, then have .NET run the string as a stored procedure on an MS SQL database. .NET would then return the dataset or string or whatever so that Flash can publish the information or handle it accordingly. I understand that there is a huge difference between a string & a dataset, but I am just giving an example. So with that in mind, can Flash handle a .NET dataset?
Basically, Flash would need t be able to pass information to .NET then .NET to pass back the result for Flash to publish. I have seen a couple of querystring methods & a web service method, but I would like to see what other options might exist.
Does anyone have any samples of ways to have Flash be used as a .NET site’s facade? Are there suggestions for the best approach to achieve my goals? Can flash use ADO.NET or whatever to cut out the .NET middle man as far as connecting to an MS SQL database & processing stored procedures therein? Again, I am trying to accomplish this without Flash Remoting.
thanks for any & all input
