Creating a new Project in Visual C# Express Open up Visual Studio and create a new project (File > New Project).įigure 1. Setting Up Your Visual C# Express Project:įirst we`re going to set up a Visual Studio Project.
I will try to go through the process step by step but this involves that you switch from Flexbuilder to VisualStudio from time to time so just keep them both open and ready. If you don`t have Flex builder you can download a trial here: So you`ll need something that produces swf file version 8 or above. You can download it here:įor the communication between the swf file and the c# wrapper I use the external interface feature which was introduced to the swf specification version 8. For this article I used Visual C# Express which is the free version of VisualStudio 2005. Preperation:įirst you`ll need Visual Studio. You will find out that c# is not much different than Actionscript. I assume that you are a flash developer that has zero knowledge of c# or visual studio (as that is what i`m). I will cover how you embed the Flash ActiveX control in your c# project and how the communication between c# and your swf file works. In this article i will show you how you can write a wrapper in c# for swf files. External Interface Communication between C# and Flex
