 See larger picture | Flash.NET - Dynamic Content for Designers with Flash Remoting MX and ASP.NET
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Graeme Bull, Chris Bizzell, Gregg Wygonik, Pallav Nadhani, David Neal, and Todd Yard
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Product Description Flash.NET is the book which is your ticket to the future of application design. Two cutting-edge technologies, joined in union to provide the perfect marriage. Macromedia Flash MX really excels when it comes to presenting graphical, interactive content. It's a superb tool for building user interfaces and for presenting content that changes over time. Microsoft's .NET Framework is a suite of tools for building powerful applications, both on and off the Web. Put them together, and a whole raft of new possibilities opens up for both: powerful logic and functionality with a rich, flexible interface on the front. Put them together, and you get Flash.NET. In this book, a team of expert designers and developers show you the basics of adding dynamic .NET content and turbo-charged server-side functionality to your Flash MX projects. In short, you need this book if you're a Flash designer who doesn't want to get left behind when all the cool people have started utilizing the power of .NET with their applications. To run the examples in this book for yourself, you'll need: * Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
* Macromedia Flash MX
* Microsoft .NET Framework SDK (free download from Microsoft)
The book also covers Macromedia Flash Remoting MX.
Featured Customer Reviews  So disjointed,
November 04, 2003I hope these guys learn a lesson (whoever runs these books now) and learn not to hire a whole slew of article writers to make a book. They're almost never good this way. Errata got mistakes too!,
July 18, 2003 I spent quite some time mark down the errata and tried to get the code to work. It turned out that the original code was working after cleaned up some typos, while the one in the errata did not work at all. The Clock example in page 29 is one.
The jokes example in Chapter 2 got another problem. Something is missing and code did not work. No errata for this one on support site. May be the other review is right - this book is not for beginners.Errata got mistakes too!,
July 18, 2003 I spent quite some time mark down the errata and tried to get the code to work. It turned out that the original code was working after cleaned up some typos, while the one in the errata did not work at all. The Clock example in page 29 is one.
The jokes example in Chapter 2 got another problem. Something is missing and code did not work. No errata for this one on support site. May be the other review is right - this book is not for beginners. Very thorough but not for beginners,
February 10, 2003I found the examples interesting and the last two case studies are quite well elaborated. I found PenPad particularly interesting. The code is downloadable from the authors' website and that makes up forthe lack of a CD (just about). Throughout the book the authors use C# as the server scripting lanaguage which surprised me. You won't learn C# from thisbook and I suspect that without some background reading, the scripts will seem meaningless. The database examples (using pubs2) are fairly standard, but again there is the unwritten assumption that you know something about these artefacts anyway. If you don't have a few undergrad CS course under your belt, the two chapters on databases will lose your interest very quickly. The flash elemetns are really introduced to illustrate principles (which I was happy with) rather than develop red hot applications. Overall, I was pleased with the book. It fills a gap between the traditional programmer and the web designer. The examples are good and reasonably developed. If I have any reservations, it is that the authors rarely take the time to develop a design before presenting code snippets. Personally I dislike this approach intensely. I find many students unable to decouple their designs from pieces of code and it encourages bad software engineering practices. there is no excuse in a data processing textbook for not throwing up half a dozen flow charts to give a flavour of the control logic. That point being made, I would certainly recommend this book to any reasonably experienced programmer, but not to a beginner. Fantastic fusion of ASP.NET and Flash MX,
January 07, 2003 This book is a great reference for both server side coders and the more flash orientated.I used this book while migrating our site from classic asp to ASP.Net and didn't have a clue about flash design. This book shows you everything from interacting with web services using flash to using flash to make online drawing apps!! I would recommend this book to anybody wanting to learn either of these technologies!
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