Windows 2003 Server does not stream FLV videos (Flash TechNote)

I am posting about this old issue because of the number of times I have to fix this problem. Windows Server 2003 does not have a mime-type for the extension “.flv”. This causes a lot of headaches when you believe your Flash video application should work but doesn’t. There is a Adobe tech note located here. In the Adobe tech note it tells you to use “flv-application/octet-stream”. This will work but if for some...

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Flex and Flash Player Codenames (better late then never)

(updated 2006.06.16 thanks to Mark) I just finally put all the recent codenames together. I have known of Zorn since Flex Builder 2 was first talked about. But I did not know that Flash Player 9 (and previously 8.5 betas) is called Zaphod. And the next version of Flex (Flex 2) is called Mistral. So we have: Zorn – Flex Builder 2 Mistral – Flex 2 Zaphod – Flash Player 9 Blaze – Flash 9 Check out what the wikipedia...

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