Burning CDs and DVDs

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How can you easily burn CDs and DVDs using C# and .NET?

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You might want to check CD/DVD burning software vendor sites who may give
managed/unmanaged SDK to develop own disc burning solutions. E.g.: Nero SDK
(http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/SDK_API.html)

"Joachim" wrote:

How can you easily burn CDs and DVDs using C# and .NET?

[Serge Baltic]

Hello,

You might want to check CD/DVD burning software vendor sites who may
give managed/unmanaged SDK to develop own disc burning solutions.
E.g.: Nero SDK (http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/SDK_API.html)

On WinXP and higher you could have the system do that, without the 3rd-party
tools. Maybe there is some API for that, maybe not … At least you could do
the following: find the shell item for the cdrom drive, copy the shell items
of files into it, then execute the “burn to cd� action on the shell item
for the CDRom drive. For all those actions you should use shell items, not
file I/O API, so that they worked just like they would in Explorer when you
drag them with mouse. This way you'll use the Explorer's build-in simplistic
CD-burning technology. I'd start from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms538005.aspx
and around that.

(H) Serge

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Thank you both!

If you'd like to go with what there already is in Windows XP and above - is
there any interface which you can burn to DVDs with?

Regards,
Joachim

"Serge Baltic" wrote:

Hello,

You might want to check CD/DVD burning software vendor sites who may
give managed/unmanaged SDK to develop own disc burning solutions.
E.g.: Nero SDK (http://www.nero.com/nero7/enu/SDK_API.html)

On WinXP and higher you could have the system do that, without the 3rd-party
tools. Maybe there is some API for that, maybe not … At least you could do
the following: find the shell item for the cdrom drive, copy the shell items
of files into it, then execute the “burn to cd� action on the shell item
for the CDRom drive. For all those actions you should use shell items, not
file I/O API, so that they worked just like they would in Explorer when you
drag them with mouse. This way you'll use the Explorer's build-in simplistic
CD-burning technology. I'd start from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms538005.aspx
and around that.

(H) Serge

[Serge Baltic]

Hello,

If you'd like to go with what there already is in Windows XP and above
- is there any interface which you can burn to DVDs with?

I've never looked for it — maybe yes, maybe no. I've just pointed out that
you can simulate the simple “in explorer, drag'n'drop files to the cdrom
and click Burn� action programmatically.

(H) Serge