.NET and AMF

Question

How can I get a ASP.NET (inc MVC) application talking to a Flex UI over AMF. I am wanting to push approx 100+ records around at a time and AMF would appear to be the way fo

Answer 1

I would definetely check WebORB and the MSMQ support (FluorineFX has the same functionality. Both are free). You could let WebORB listen to a certain queue in MSMQ. On the flex side you would need to create a Consumer and suscribe it to that queue. WebORB will then push every message in the queue to all the Consumers created in the swf. Other applications like your ASP.NET application could put messages in that queue (serialized objects or xml for instance) and will be delivered to your Flex GUI.

I wrote some posts on the subect on http://blog.johlero.eu.

Another very good example is at http://www.themidnightcoders.com/articles/msmqtoflexdatapush.shtm where they use a Windows Form Application to send messages to a flex Gui.

Lieven Cardoen aka Johlero