Passing a User Generated Image From Adobe Flash to ASP.NET

A few months ago I was browsing StackOverflow while waiting for a question I had asked to be answered (typical SO user behaviour or am I a bit of a freeloader?) when I came across a question asking how to pass an image from Flash to ASP.NET and I thought "this is definitely one for me".

I have four years experience with ASP.NET from my day job at a Leading UK Marketing Agency and about a million years experience with Flash from being a student at the Hull School of art and Design, teaching Interactive Multimedia at the University of Lincoln and using it in personal and professional projects.

I'm a massive fan of StackOverflow and find it an invaluable resource, so in the interest of giving a little bit back to the community, I placed a bookmark on my desktop with the intention of writing a solid answer to the question.

Four months go by and finally, I get round to doing it. And so, you can now read about how to send a generated image from Adobe Flash (using ActionScript 3) to an ASP.NET backend and hopefully my karmic daemons will leave me alone for another week.

The western front...

All is quiete around here and has been for a while.

This is mainly due to me having to learn ActionScript (again) to pull a project out of the gutter so I will be spending most of the weekend (and any other *spare* time I might have) living and breathing AS2 classes and wishing I was a lot better versed in the drawing API and the old EventDispatcher. Although I'm not doing bad having not done any serious ActionScript in the last 18 is months.

The project is top secret so I can't say much more but maybe I'll have some lovely little learnings to write about if and when I get the time.