Introduction
Prior to working with Visual Studio® 2005, adding even simple tunes and system sounds to your application was a challenge. There are numerous new classes and namespaces that have been added to the Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0 to help you do just that. I'm going to take a look at one of them, the System.Media
namespace.
Background
Use System.Media
namespace for the following. I will be providing all the code snippets in C#.
using System.Media;
Using the Code
Use the SystemSounds
class to play system defined sounds. This class has five public
properties which return an object of SystemSound
. The properties are as follows:
Asterisk
Beep
Exclamation
Hand
Question
Now for playing a Beep
sound, one can use the Play
function exposed by the SystemSound
class.
SystemSounds.Beep.Play();
Use the SoundPlayer
class to play wave sounds, be it from file, stream, a URL or an embedded WAV resource. Pass the path of the file/URL in the constructor and load the file asynchronously using the LoadAsync
function. One should explicitly load the sound asynchronously if it is from a URL or a stream.
sndPlayer = new SoundPlayer("http://localhost/test.wav");
sndPlayer.LoadAsync();
History
- 6th March, 2006: Initial post
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