Month: December 2006

  • Flex and C# Communication (Tutorial)

    While waiting for Apollo i decided to check out what can be done with flash on the desktop today.
    I`ve never been into microsoft programming but found out that it`s extremely easy to write your own wrapper for swf files in c#.
    This gives you the opportunity to write your own Zinc like projector tool. As a start i implemented simple file I/O and a way to start and play cds.
    The coolest thing i was able to do was to include microsofts speech recognition and make my flex application react to speech.
    The app is quite simple but cool! I have a button on stage and if i say “left” it will jump to the left or if i say “green” it`s text becomes green.

    I decided to write a small tutorial about how to embed an swf file into a c# project and how the communication works. Well this is my first public
    tutorial so be patient. I had several dificulties:

    – english is not my native language
    – how to describe things and make them understandable
    – how to show code in a nice way

    Well i think i failed in coping with all of those challenges 🙁

    Anyway if i find the time i want to extend this article to the point with the speech engine.
    If you want to help me i would be very interested in suggestions and corrections.

    Check it out here.