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Google officially indexing flash sites – good news?

According to the official Google blog, they’re now officially indexing flash content. According to my SEO expert, they’ve been doing this for some time. However, I wonder if making this official is a good news. One of the big arguments

Take a screenshot in Flex and send it to ASP.NET

In Adobe Flex 3, you can get a bitmap image of any control by using this code (you’ll need to import "mx.graphics.ImageSnapshot"): var snapshot:ImageSnapshot = ImageSnapshot.captureImage(backgroundCanvas); By default, it uses PNG encoding. If you want to then send this image

Reading an octet stream post in ASP.NET

I’m using Adobe Flex to take a snapshot of some controls. I turn the PNG encoded bitmap data into a ByteArray. I then send the data to the server, through an ASP.NET page. On the Flex side of things, I

Uninitialized variables in Adobe Flex “for” loops

for(var j:int; j < editAreas.length; j++) trace("doing something"); What’s wrong with this ActionScript code? This was a block of code that I fixed while tracking down a nasty bug. c# would have never let me do this. Basically, the "j"