The absolute cutting edge for application development at the moment is
using Macromedia's Flash MX (the premier software for designing
fantastic looking interfaces) with Microsoft's .NET framework
(tremendously powerful server-side technology).
Combining these technologies has been greatly aided by the release of
Macromedia's Flash Remoting MX, which is covered fully in this book.
Designers and developers involved in the creation of this technology
impart their knowledge to you in this book through extensive case
studies.
Flash Remoting is not the only way to combine these technologies,
however, so this book will fully cover Flash/.NET integration using
ASP.NET.
This book is for readers who are looking to integrate their Flash movies
with a .NET-enabled back-end. It assumes no prior knowledge of
server-side technologies, but does require knowledge of Flash MX and
ActionScript.