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Overview
You may have a situation where you want to or need to integrate a Flash film (swf) in your application for a variety of reasons. You can easily do this in Visual Basic .NET using the Shockwave Flash Object. I have created an illustration of integrating Flash and VB.NET by creating a very simple flash player written in VB.Net
You can download the sample code from the link that appears at the top of this post. Note that you may have to modify the code to your environment. If you want to see a demonstration of this application, view the video below:
4 comments:
Great idea to create superb animations real quick for WinForms. One quick question: Why does it not BUILD (get built?) the first time in VS 2005?
Excellent question, Rafay!
Honestly, I'm not sure why it doesn't build the first time in VS 2005. If you do this same exercise in VS 2008, the control gets added to the form without having to rebuild the application.
Hopefully one of the readers may have some insight.
Heres something that I found that may answer Rafay's question. Some guy posted it on a Microsoft forum:
"The reason that my ActiveX contol (and possibly other ActiveX controls from other parties, excluding some 'very simple' controls) was not insertable on a Visual Studio 2005 .Net Windows Form directly was because of 2005, and unlike its predecessor VS2003, does not automatically add the necessary and needed COM reference to the OLE Automation type library - stdole.tlb or stdole2.tlb."
Nice find, big fan of Bill Gates!
I also found this article on MSDN - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms364063(vs.80).aspx. Perhaps it may also have to do with how the control is compiled.
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