How to access and debug your ASP.net application when making calls from Flex/Flash when you’re developing in osX. Some kid on a forum was having issues with figuring this out. So heres the solution to how to access your ASP.net (Using studio 2005) application from osX.

Heres the setup:

osX: Flex or Flash

Windows: Visual Studio ASP.NET 2005 Project

The asp.net development server is only available on the local machine (for security reasons). So really all we need to do is switch to using your local IIS install.

1. Make sure IIS is running and the home directory of your web is set to your applications directory.

2. Change your windows firewall to allow port 80.

3. Open your studio asp.net project and right click on the project. Select “Property Pages”

4. Select “Start Options”. Change “Server” from “Use default web server” to “Use custom server” and enter a base URL of http://localhost

5. Get your xp installs current ip address. Go to start, run, enter “cmd”. Enter ipconfig. (Note: I’m not using parallels shared network) (also a good idea to use an internal static IP in XP)

6. Open Safari. Enter Http://{your windows ip address} (make sure your .net project has a default page)

7. I know what you’re thinking. Damn Jenny! Thats the sh*t!

8. Ok, probably not. But hey it works.

9. The only other problem with this whole setup? It kind of overloads my macbook(flex,flash,Studio,XP,osX,Fireworks,PS,etc) and makes it sad. Still waiting for final girlfriend approval on that Mac Pro.

There you go kid. Knock yourself out. -s