BB FlashBack SDK: Installation

Visual Studio.NET

The SDK consists of two visual components: FBPlayer and FBRecorder classes, and two non-visual libraries: the BBFlashBackEditor library (contained in BBFlashBackEditor.dll) and BBFlashBackVDisk library (contained in BBFlashBackVDisk.dll).

Note: only the FBPlayer and FBRecorder classes will be visible in Visual Studio at design-time. Other classes have to be created at runtime. See the sample code that was installed with the SDK for examples - in the 'Samples' folder under the SDK installation folder.

 

To install the visual components in Visual Studio .NET, for use from managed C++, Visual Basic .NET, and C#, follow the steps described below.

  1. Click the right mouse button on the designer toolbox and select Choose Items.

  2. A dialog with two pages appears. Select the second page titled COM Components.

  3. Locate the classes FBPlayer and FBRecorder.

  4. Check the boxes next to the classes and click OK.

  5. The new icons for FBPlayer and FBRecorder are now visible on the designer toolbox.

You may now drop these items on your forms and set their properties, call their methods, etc.

To install the non-visual libraries, you must include the library into the project manually. Right click on the Reference folder in the Solution explorer panel and select the Add Reference... item. Switch to the COM tab sheet and select either BBFlashbackEditor Library or BBFlashbackVDisk Library. Then the proper namespaces will be accessible from code.

 

Note

Recall that in the .NET environment you may not use the objects before the application has been fully initialized.

See Also

Visual Studio, Borland Delphi / C++ Builder