Flash and .NET...a couple questions

[rogz]

I was thinking about creating an app using flash and .net but had a few
questions on the best way to go about doing things. Is it best practise to
return the data from the .net pages to flash through xml or simple as url
variables...we are uncertain as to the amount of data that may be passed back
and form and we're worried about url constraints. Will application speed be
slowed down considerably while getting the data from the .net page and into the
flash app? The other alternative would be just to use rendered html pages from
..net.

thanks

[Motion Maker]

Personally I like URL vars for a simple quick Flash app where there is not
much data. However I prefer XML for more data complex apps.

I think with XML you have the parsing overhead that is data size and data
design dependent. That exists both on the client and server side. As well
you have more overhead for markup of XML.

As far are choosing to render the page UI as html versus as a Flash movie,
usually rendering as HTML creates additional net overhead to pass the UI
markup over and over for variations of the same page or parts unless you can
design around AJAX or the like.

With Flash the UI is generally a download once and you can download parts of
the UI as used and it stays until the Flash movie is purged from the cache.
Thus you only have data moving between the server and the client side Flash
movie.





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I was thinking about creating an app using flash and .net but had a few
questions on the best way to go about doing things. Is it best practise to
return the data from the .net pages to flash through xml or simple as url
variables...we are uncertain as to the amount of data that may be passed
back
and form and we're worried about url constraints. Will application speed be
slowed down considerably while getting the data from the .net page and into
the
flash app? The other alternative would be just to use rendered html pages
from
..net.

thanks