Check out this quick start guide on how to create SWF file in Visual Basic: "Hello, World" example. This tutorial will teach you how to create simple SWF flash animation using SWF Scout SDK and Visual Basic

1) Install SWF Scout SDK on your computer and run Visual Basic. Go to File and click New:

The Project Wizard will appear:

2) Select Standard EXE project type and click Open to create a new project.
Visual Basic will generate a new project called Project1 and will automatically open the main form of the generated project:
 

3) Click the Form1 window and Visual Basic will show code window for Form_Load event:

4) Now you have to add the code that will create SWF flash movie file using SWF Scout library.

Here is the source code that you can simply copy and paste into Visual Basic:
 

 W = 640 ' width
 H = 480 ' height
 Set Movie = CreateObject("SWFScout.FlashMovie")
 Movie.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"
 Movie.BeginMovie 0, 0, W, H, 1, 12, 6
 Movie.Compressed = True
 Movie.SetBackgroundColor 255, 255, 255 ' set background color to white
 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
 

This function will create Flash file Shapes.swf on C:\ drive.

Hint: you can simply copy the source code from the snippet above and then paste it to the Visual Basic code editor:
 

5) Press F5 to run the application (you can also use Run > Start menu command). 

6) Visual Basic will run the application and application will generate flash file c:\Shapes.swf.

You can view generated flash file (.SWF) using Internet Explorer or another application that for playing flash animations.
 

Download source code: