Play standard sound

[Peter Schmitz]

Hi,

how can I play a windows standard sound (like the one when an error occurrs)
out of my vb.net project?

Thanks
Peter

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi Peter,
Declare this before the form's load event:
Private Declare Function PlaySound _

Lib "WINMM.DLL" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _

(ByVal lpszSoundName As String, _

ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

Private Enum playsoundflags

async = &H1

sync = &H0

End Enum

Then call it like this:

PlaySound("c:\mozart3.wav", playsoundflags.async)

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger

"Peter Schmitz" <Pe**********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

how can I play a windows standard sound (like the one when an error
occurrs)
out of my vb.net project?

Thanks
Peter

[Dave]

Or, you can look into using managed DirectX (9.*) for more control.
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Dave Sexton
dave@www..jwaonline..com
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"Bernie Yaeger" <be*****@cherwellinc.com> wrote in message news:eK**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

Hi Peter,
Declare this before the form's load event:
Private Declare Function PlaySound _

Lib "WINMM.DLL" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" _

(ByVal lpszSoundName As String, _

ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long

Private Enum playsoundflags

async = &H1

sync = &H0

End Enum

Then call it like this:

PlaySound("c:\mozart3.wav", playsoundflags.async)

HTH,

Bernie Yaeger

"Peter Schmitz" <Pe**********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:74**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi,

how can I play a windows standard sound (like the one when an error occurrs)
out of my vb.net project?

Thanks
Peter