The most important thing to realize about Flex and it's
ability to connect to a database is that i cannot!
There is nothing in Flex that knows anything about .Net or
vice versa!
Absolutely, Flex can talk to old simple ASP pages. It's
entirely upto the ASP page to figure out about how it wants to
connect to a database. Once it has retrieved that data from
database, all it has to do is to write it to the Response object
as, let's say, XML or JSON or what have you.
Once you have this page and you hit it in the browser and see
the appropriate response, you're ready to call it from Flex. In
flex you'll use HTTPService class and listen for result and fault
events. One you've recieived the data its upto you to display it
whichever way you like.
Yes, of course, you can use the same HTTPService in Flash CS3
to connect to the same page, listen for same result and falut event
and get the data.
ATTA