[flexcoders] Re: Flex vs. .Net for RIA database apps; new to both

2006-06-11 Thread michaellisten
source flash remoting for .NET) all the time, just have to manually > tweak NetConnection than that's it. > > ps. Flash Remoting uses binary AMF to send and receive native AS objects so > it's a bit easier to handle large dataset. > > > On 6/11/06, michaellisten <

[flexcoders] Re: Flex vs. .Net for RIA database apps; new to both

2006-06-10 Thread michaellisten
d easily maintained. One other thought is that Flex can also be > used as an alternative to .NET WinForms; without the associated DLL > Hell and installation requirements. These are just my opinions, but > I'm definitely sold on Flex for database driven web applications. > >

[flexcoders] Re: Flex vs. .Net for RIA database apps; new to both

2006-06-10 Thread michaellisten
ms, handling all the layout, > required field, data validation and so on... > > -Validator: there are various built-in Validators (email, credit card...) to > check user-input data before sending back to server. > > in my opinio, it's really a snap to build this kind of Form-Ent

[flexcoders] Flex vs. .Net for RIA database apps; new to both

2006-06-09 Thread michaellisten
I'm trying to decide which technology to invest my time into, and will be experimenting with both .net and flex. I like the OS independence that flex enables on the server side. I'd buy flex builder because I'm interested in whichever provides the simplest learning curve, and I'm sure on the fl

[flexcoders] Re: Comboboxes in flex/flash

2006-06-07 Thread michaellisten
D]> wrote: > > > Check out Sho's completion input example here: > > http://kuwamoto.org/2006/05/11/example-code-updated-for-beta-3/ > <http://kuwamoto.org/2006/05/11/example-code-updated-for-beta-3/> > > -TH > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.co

[flexcoders] Comboboxes in flex/flash

2006-06-07 Thread michaellisten
Just looking at flex/flash, have a general question re combobox, aka dropdown list. I'm not sure that I've seen one in a sample app that has a lookup feature; type ahead etc. They're more like "open the combo and pick from the list". That's not very workable with data centric apps which is what I d