How do I run a SWF file in WinForms after it’s End of Life?

Levi Șalgău 0 Reputation points
2023-02-23T22:09:03.6333333+00:00

Hi, I’m new into this outdated idea of displaying a Shockwave Flash movie in a Windows Forms application. Since I’ve decided to use C# for my project’s UI but ActionScript3 for the main application I’m interested of “How could I run the main SWF file on WinForms?”. I have tried more than one method. AxShockwave, it didn’t even start the application, I’ve also tried some extra method of using a Index.html with the SWF embemmed in it and trying to run the PeperFlash on CefSharp(51, 53, 71, 87) or WebView2. None of those methods worked. I’m so into this like I want so badly to done my project but I still didn’t find a method to do so. Any suggestions, ideas, solves? I want to done the project. Or do you have any ways to run the SWF on other language program but still using Visual Studio?

Developer technologies | Windows Forms
Developer technologies | C#
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  1. Castorix31 90,686 Reputation points
    2023-02-24T06:51:08.4433333+00:00

    It still works for me (Windows 10 22H2) with VLC ActiveX (axvlc.dll), in x64

    I just tested with sample_1280x720.swf from https://filesamples.com/formats/swf :

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