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Actionscript Cookbook
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Actionscript Cookbook

by Joey Lott
July 2003
Intermediate to advanced
896 pages
45h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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20.3. Configuring Flash Remoting for .NET

Problem

You want to configure Flash Remoting for .NET.

Solution

Add the flashgateway.dll file to the .NET web application’s bin directory and create a blank gateway.aspx file in the web application’s root directory. The file and folder permissions must be set to allow access to .NET web services. For example, web services won’t work if the ASP.NET user doesn’t have permission to run wsdl.exe. To support all Flash Remoting features, install the entire .NET SDK on the server, and not just the limited .NET Framework.

Discussion

Flash Remoting for .NET allows Flash clients to communicate with Windows .NET applications. The Flash Remoting for .NET gateway is sold separately by Macromedia (see http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashremoting/productinfo/versions_pricing). You must download and install either the trial version or full version before proceeding.

To use Flash Remoting for .NET, two things must be properly configured on the server: the Flash Remoting assembly (flashgateway.dll), which implements Flash Remoting support on the server, and an ASPX page, which is used as the Flash Remoting gateway. If you have installed Flash Remoting for .NET, the default installation creates a flashremoting directory within the IIS web root (usually C:\Inetput\wwwroot). The flashgateway.dll assembly file can be found within the bin directory of that directory, and you should copy it to the bin directory of your own .NET web application. Additionally, you ...

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