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

2006-06-12 Thread flashorbman
> So If you want to use Flex2 with .NET and remoting today, you can't > use RemoteObject out of the box, you will have to maually create > NetConnection instance and connect/call remote method. This is not quite true with our product - WebORB. We fully support the RPC subsystem of FDS on .NET, s

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

2006-06-11 Thread Jeremy Lu
Actually flash remoting is part of Flex, when you use RemoteObject, you are using remoting.The thing is that currently (in F2B3), there are only server-side remoting gateway for Coldfusion (which support AMF3 - which also means, if you use RemoteObject in F2B3, your backend must be Coldfusion wi

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

2006-06-11 Thread michaellisten
What software is needed in order to use flash remoting? Just plain flash or is there some flash dev package? Are the terms for deploying simple or does one have to license per server etc? I've seen a couple of pages that ref ruby on rails too for the web services end of things. Not sure how practi

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

2006-06-10 Thread Jeremy Lu
one more note (to Tim's post) : aside from Web Service, you can also use flash remoting with .NET as the means of data transmission.we use both products from Macromedia (flash remoting for .NET) and Fluorine (open source flash remoting for .NET) all the time, just have to manually tweak NetConne

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

2006-06-10 Thread michaellisten
Tim, that's great feedback, and also very much what I was hoping to hear. Winforms over the web with data via remoting etc has been closest to what I have been wanting migrate to, whenever that time for the learning materializes for me. Flex seemed a worthy alternative but pricing seemed to put it

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

2006-06-10 Thread Tim Hoff
I agree completely with the assessment that Jeremy made concerning Flex's database suitability. Before Flex, I developed web applications primarily with ASP.NET. In my opinion, Flex is a much better choice for UI development. True, .Net includes all layers, but the main drawback is that page

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

2006-06-10 Thread michaellisten
Thanks Jeremy, I'd not seen the flex dev derby page. There are some pretty interesting apps there, a good exposure. Do you (or anyone) have any perspective on how flex compares with .net, re getting work done? .net in total includes in theory all layers including the webservice etc that one might