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Adobe, Flash, Java? With ASP.NET?
Hello everyone,
This is sort of a generic question, I am just in the process of helping someone re-design a website and we are looking to use flash to display images on the site.
My question is, what is the best way of going about implementing Flash on a website when your platform is ASP.NET?
There are several applications out there that I can see that can be used to make flash objects, but as I have absolutely no idea about flash I am a bit baffled as to where to start.
I have read that you can program flash with ActionScript (I am an experienced C#/C++ Developer so I would image I would hopefully be able to handle it.)
Anyone got any tips as to what kind of software I should use to make things like flash slideshows, flash window popups(showing a bigger version of the image rather than navigating to a seperate page to view it).
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
This is sort of a generic question, I am just in the process of helping someone re-design a website and we are looking to use flash to display images on the site.
My question is, what is the best way of going about implementing Flash on a website when your platform is ASP.NET?
There are several applications out there that I can see that can be used to make flash objects, but as I have absolutely no idea about flash I am a bit baffled as to where to start.
I have read that you can program flash with ActionScript (I am an experienced C#/C++ Developer so I would image I would hopefully be able to handle it.)
Anyone got any tips as to what kind of software I should use to make things like flash slideshows, flash window popups(showing a bigger version of the image rather than navigating to a seperate page to view it).
Any advice would be appreciated, thanks!
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Thanks blue :o), the pictures will need to be changed regularly, so I need to have some way of inserting the url/path for the pictures to be displayed.
most of the flash galleries these days load images from xml so you'd just need to change the xml.
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Great, thanks :o)
I just got started on Adobe CS4 and running through some tutorials. At the moment I can see how I can display nifty graphics, just not sure if there is going to be much "interface" between asp.net and the flash files.
Although I think I might be able to feed data into the flash object through the xml files for things like links to a particular product as well as the image to be displayed. So it will display an image but also have a link to a location on the website.
I just got started on Adobe CS4 and running through some tutorials. At the moment I can see how I can display nifty graphics, just not sure if there is going to be much "interface" between asp.net and the flash files.
Although I think I might be able to feed data into the flash object through the xml files for things like links to a particular product as well as the image to be displayed. So it will display an image but also have a link to a location on the website.
yup xml will do that nicely :-)
i'm busy getting cs4 - been working mostly with AS2 and .NET in the past but my .NET guy has left - so I"m pushing for flex option to build desktop apps using AIR.
with AS2 we used external interface to handle the comms - you can do it in AS3 as well.
i'm busy getting cs4 - been working mostly with AS2 and .NET in the past but my .NET guy has left - so I"m pushing for flex option to build desktop apps using AIR.
with AS2 we used external interface to handle the comms - you can do it in AS3 as well.
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I had a look at flex, its pretty nice, would consider porting our back-office apps to flex if I could, dont think our apps would be able to operate in it though. (Although I dont know too much about it yet)
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