Note: this post still seems to get tons of hits, and I do get a lot of requests for the source as well. This project was merged into the xamlon project, and is now rotting on some backup disks somewhere : ). There is a new C# parser if that is what brought you here you can read about it here . Not planning to go to swf with it, but feel free... Also, there is NeoSwiff if you are looking for C# to swf, from all I have heard it is an awesome product. Back to the old post...

Csswf is a swf compiler, where you use C# rather than actionscript. This is preview 2. There are still plenty of details to cover, however it is getting to the point you can actually make things, yeaaay. I've spent the last day or two making a little window UI demo (below), and I must say making swf's in Visual Studio is tres tres nice. The intellisense is great, autocomplete wonderful, code folding, class view etc etc. And C# of course, what a language to use : ). This hides some of the 'flash' centric side of things - for example events are pretty much just like in C#/.Net. The goal is to have a very .Net like interface into what is now SwfNative.

You can download the source (and the compiler) here:
http://richmediabuilder.com/csswf/Preview2.zip

The solution loads into VS (of course you can use any IDE), however to compile it to swf, you need to invoke the 'run.bat' file in the demo directory (this runs the MS csc compiler first, as it is the one that catches bugs!). To make your own projects, add SwfNative as a resource, and then it is probably best to just look at how that bat file is set up and do something similar...

There are a number of issues still to go, mostly path stuff as I'm in between the readable and optimized generation. The major stuff still to do:

• Map/hook in the Base Class Libraries of C#. This is things like myString.Length etc, and generally things in System.
• Finish the SwfNative stubs. There are only 10 or so classes (MovieClip, TextField etc) in there now.
• Compile swf libraries (graphics/sound etc), use these like resource files. This is mostly done, but not hooked in yet.
• Optimization pass. Attribution will need a bit of tweaking before this, file size will get *very* much smaller with this, and hopfully quite a bit faster.
• A proper Visual Studio plugin. Also hook in things like AsDraw, Swf>SVG etc here.

If anyone needs a hand setting things up or using this, just give me a shout.. I've got a pretty good handle on what is working and what isn't -- probably easier to just ask if you see something strange... Always happy to hear about bugs too!