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Flash CS3 with ASP.NET 2.0 integration via XML

Hi Experts
I am developing a website inwhich I need to show frontend design with Flash CS3 and back end is a database of SQL Server 2005.
I am using ASP.NET to integrate with SQL Server 2005 I know how to convert this data into XML format, but the difficult part is i need to send this XML to Flash CS3 for reading...
Or I need any otherway to integrate between Flash CS3 and ASP.NET (and SQL Server 2005).
I know ASP.NET and SQL Server 2005 but I am not good at flash actionscript.
Thanks in Advance.

tyordi

I would suggest using ASP.NET to create the XML file and save it to a location that your flash file has access to. Look at some of the tutorials on how to handle XML parsing in actionscript (many of the basic ones are for mp3 players, but it is a good introduction to learn the syntax), like the one found at:

http://blog.six4rty.ch/tutorials/flash-create-a-full-streaming-flash-mp3-player-using-xml-pt-1/

blue-genie

Hi,

tyordi if you don't mind me jumping in, other alternatives include using webservices or socket connections which flash can connect to and get the xml directly.

blu.

imtiazwighio

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Hi
Blue-genie would you mind to let me know more about webservices or socket connections, because I don't know them very well, or suggest me any website where I can easily find solutions to these things.

Thanks

IMTIAZ

blue-genie

Hi Imtiaz.
Sorry in terms of how to create a Web Service or Sockert Server, can't help you there.
I personally don't do the creating of the Web Services or the Sockets, this gets handled by the .NET developers.
If you don't know how to do that, then you can try looking in google. I don't think its that hard, since our new guys just created a socket server for me and he'd never done it before himself.

are you using AS2 or AS3?
you're embedding the swf into an aspx page? how much data will be in the xml string?
if not too much you might be able to do it with FlashVars.

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