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derstineb14803575
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November 30, 2015
Question

Deploy Shockwave Flash Player

  • November 30, 2015
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I have made a simple YouTube player in C# that uses Shockwave Flash. Now, when i am inside visual studio it works (the videos can be played) but when i deploy my application the flash player turns just white(i only see the flash player control, no videos playing). It doesn't play any videos. Now, i installed the active X plugin for IE but still doesn't work. Even on my development machine the player doesn't play video when i open it directly using the executable. It only works when i am inside visual studio. So i am asking for a help. I know that my applications needs a active X but i don't know the right version to download or do i miss something here.

This problem only shows on any windows 7 machine even if flash player is installed while on windows 8 it runs fine since it has embedded flash player.

By the way here is my code to play the video.

axShockwaveFlash1.Movie = "https://www.youtube.com/v/TBGkbDhE8wM";
axShockwaveFlash1.Play();

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jeromiec83223024
jeromiec83223024
Inspiring
December 3, 2015

It's probably worth pointing out that if you're working on a commercial project, we don't support embedding ActiveX controls in executables, and we do break functionality from time to time.  We'd highly recommend that you take a good look at Adobe AIR if you're building Flash-based desktop products.  That said, we know that there's a body of legacy applications that still embeds the ActiveX control, and we try to fix bugs when they arise.  If you have a choice; however, I'd discourage you from taking this approach in general.

Carm01
Carm01
Legend
December 2, 2015

1) This might be outside the scope of this fourm, as a dev myself, not with C#. I often face challenges withing the code I have to resolve myself, as it could be many things.

2) Make sure the activeX version of flash is installed on your machine. Here is the direct DL link: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ax.exe

You also might want to make sure the NPAPI version is installed just in case: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player.exe

3) There is obviously something with in VS that has the necessary support files to make it work. Try compiling the code to a standalone exe and see what the results are.

Best Regards

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