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How can I check for sound card?

Hi,
Is there a way to check for sound cards in c#? I don't want to force the
user to have DirectX9 or so, can I perhaps use winmm.dll?

Any help, and code snippets, is highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Mats-Lennart
Dec 1 '05 #1
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That's right - you need to import a winmm.dll function.
If you just want to make sure that this PC does have a sound card you
may use this:
[DllImport("winm m.dll", SetLastError = true)]
public static extern uint waveOutGetNumDe vs();
If result is non-zero then you can expect a device.

Mats-Lennart Hansson wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to check for sound cards in c#? I don't want to force the
user to have DirectX9 or so, can I perhaps use winmm.dll?

Any help, and code snippets, is highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Mats-Lennart

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Vit Zayko
Dec 1 '05 #2
This works fine. Thanks!

"Vitaly Zayko" <vitaly_at_zayk o_dot_net> wrote in message
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That's right - you need to import a winmm.dll function.
If you just want to make sure that this PC does have a sound card you may
use this:
[DllImport("winm m.dll", SetLastError = true)]
public static extern uint waveOutGetNumDe vs();
If result is non-zero then you can expect a device.

Mats-Lennart Hansson wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to check for sound cards in c#? I don't want to force the
user to have DirectX9 or so, can I perhaps use winmm.dll?

Any help, and code snippets, is highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Mats-Lennart

--
Vit Zayko

Dec 1 '05 #3

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