Passing a variable from Flash Cs3 (AS2) to C#

I am working on what I thought would be a simple microsoft windows form application. In the application I load a .swf file, straight and simple, but when the last frame is reached I need to pass information to the C# program that the last page has been reached - I thought a variable [finished = 1] or a string [end="Finished"] would work best.
I have google,d binged, and searched through these forums but I cannot find anything that I can understand. As you can tell I am a very casual flash and C# user (=noob), any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for any assistance
Woodtd

Thank you for your response.
Do you have a code snippet or other example that shows how to do this?
Thanks
Tim

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