Flash doesn't work on 64bit Windows

[Dan Garner]

Neither the direct flash media type, or embedding it manually.

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

From Dustin Drewery:

Fixed it.. long story short.. I don't have studio on my laptop and didn't want to go to the office. I downloaded and tried VS express but found out one of the things that is disabled in express is the ability to target platforms. I finally found a faster solution.. part of the .Net SDK. There is a file called CorFlags.exe that will let you switch the flag on after its compiled. You have to install the SDK first but once I did, ran the following:

corflags XiboClient.exe /32bit+ /force

The corflags.exe is located under "\program files\WindowsSDKs\vX.X\bin". Note, you may have to edit the security rights on xiboclient.exe so that your current user has full controll. I copied the file into my bin folder first to do it then replaced it when it was done.

Bottom line, all browser controls are forced to use WoW now wich runs 32bit iExplorer.exe. Granted, you could just select the platform as x86 before you compile from now on but this is a handy trick for ANY exe file!

Here's a link to the resources I discovered:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zekwfyz4(VS.80).aspx#1

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2010/01/13/web-browser-control-does-not-show-flash-or-silverlight-in-a-64bit-dot-net-application.aspx

http://www.request-response.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,cf345d71-cdc7-46b9-8c1c-eb21581a9222.aspx

I haven't tested much with the new exe but I can't think of any reason anything else would break.. this should force all controls to use the 32bit versions if running on 64bit os.

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

As we have a proposed fix, I'm targeting to 1.2.0-rc2 as it should be possible to change these settings as part of the release build.

[Dan Garner (dangarner)]

Just to be sure... the solution is to build with the platform set to x64 rather than Any CPU?

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

I thought the solution was to build for x86 NOT AMD64.

Alex

[Dan Garner (dangarner)]

Quite right, I did mean x86!