This is a quick start guide with SWF Scout SDK and Visual Basic .NET - "Hello, World!" example. This step-by-step tutorial will teach you how to create SWF animation file in VB.NET application using SWF Scout SDK.

1) Install SWF Scout SDK on your computer and run Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.

Go to the New menu and click Project... to create new project:
 

You'll see the New Project Wizard. Select Windows Application in Visual Basic Projects group:

2) VB.NET will create a new project:

3) To use SWF Scout SDK in Visual Basic.NET we have to add reference to SWF Scout library for current VB.NET project. Select Project in the main menu and select Add Reference command:

Switch to COM tab and find SWF Scout library in the list of available COM objects:

Then click Select and OK to add reference to SWF Scout.

4) Now add the code that will create "Hello, World!" SWF flash movie. Double-click Form1 to create Form1_Load event procedure:

The source code editor window will appear:

5) The code that generate "Hello, World!" SWF flash movie is below. Created flash animation file will be saved as c:\Shapes.swf file. You can simply copy-and-paste this code into your project.

          Dim Movie As SWFScout.FlashMovie
        Movie = New SWFScout.FlashMovie
        Movie.InitLibrary("demo", "demo")
        Movie.BeginMovie(0, 0, 640, 480, 1, 12, 6)
        Dim Font As Integer
        Font = Movie.AddFont("Arial", 18, True, False, False, False, 0) ' add font
        ' create and place text
        Dim Text As Integer
        Text = Movie.AddText("Hello, World!", 0, 0, 0, 255, Font, 0, 100, 250, 160)
        Movie.PlaceText(Text, Movie.CurrentMaxDepth) ' place text into current depth
        Movie.PLACE_FadeOut(0.5) ' fade out text
        Dim Shape As Integer
        Shape = Movie.AddShape ' add new shape
        Movie.SHAPE_Rectangle(0, 140, 150, 285) ' draw rectangle
        Movie.SHAPE_SetSolidColor(50, 255, 50, True, 255) ' set solid fill for shape
 
        Movie.PlaceShape(Shape, Movie.CurrentMaxDepth) ' place shape into current depth
        Movie.ShowFrame(10) ' show 10 frames
        Movie.EndMovie() ' end movie generation
        Movie.SaveToFile("c:\Shapes.swf") ' save generated SWF into file

Hint: you can simply copy the source code from the snippet above and paste into Visual Basic.NET code editor window:
 

6) Press F5 to run the application (you can also use Debug > Start menu command) and Visual Basic .NET will run the application:

The application will generate flash animation file and will save it as Shapes.swf file in a root folder of C:\ drive. 

You can view generated SWF movie using Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or another application you use play flash movies.
 

Download source code: