A great introductory article about using flash remoting with .net has been written by a guy named “Jason Michael Perry:http://www.jasonmperry.com . It describes a tutorial for writing your first .NET RIA. The article has been used by MM Devnet and can be found here.

I tried installing the development edition of Macromedia Coldfusion MX(6.1) , but I just couldn’t get it working on my Windows 2000 server edition. It seems Macromedia decided to use an open source installer which just couldn’t get the job done…..two thumbs down for MM in that corner. The installer kept asking me for an installation directory after in which it unpacked the setup but still kept asking for an installation directory. So i decided to trash Coldfusion. I will wait until they have their stuff ready for use and check back on it then.

In the mean time, i still need a backbone for my RIA. Since Microsoft.NET technology is supported by MM through Flash Remoting for .NET i thought i might try that :). It installed without a problem. woohoo! ;).

To make Flash MX 2004 support the remoting procedures and funtions etc, you will need the components provided free by MM. You can get them here.

When i figure out how this new backbone works, I’ll let you know ;)

Before i can get my hands dirty, building components of a rich internet application. I first need to get my backbone installed. Since the essence of rich internet applications, in my opinion, is the real time communication with and visualisation of data out of a database in a rich user friendly interface, we need at least a……..Database! right!.

The server on which the whole development thing will run is a windows 2000 server edition on a pentium ice age with i believe something like 233 Mhz and 64 MB RAM memory. Just to give you an idea of how low the specs are ;).
On this server i installed IIS (standard on windows 2000 server edition) and MSSQL as a database backend.

With the knowledge i have at this moment of things like rich internet applications, flash remoting, etc i have a hunch i will need coldfusion as a script interpreter on IIS. So i downloaded and installed the 6.1 version of that also.

That should do it for now. Let’s get busy and do some tutorials. When anything comes out of it, i’ll yet you know.