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Using with Visual Basic.NET 2005

Installing the engine:

Move the "Installation" folder to a location that will not be moved and run RegisterDFPGE.bat as an administrator to tell Windows that the engine can be found in that folder.

Inserting the component to a new project in Visual Basic.NET 2005:

Start Visual Studio

Create a new project and choose to make a Windows application in Visual Basic

Open the tool menu, select "Choose Toolbox Items", open the "COM Components tab", select "David Piuva's graphics engine" and press ok.

Select the graphics engine from your toolbox and drag a rectangle on your window to create the component.

Translate as much reusable code as possible from the Visual Basic 6 examples so that you can get started.