Forms :: How To Access And Play System Sounds
Oct 5, 2009
I know how to access and play the system sounds using vb.net, and I also know that using the registry to save users' settings isn't ideal, however, The details of my project are rather long and drawn out, so I'll skip most of them Basically my program is loaded onto several computers on our network. The entire purpose of this program is to sound various alarms on different dates and times. Apparently I am to set up the program so that the different alarm sounds can be configured through Windows' control panel.
I can add the program into the appropriate part of the Registry in order to make that happen. The problem is reading the the information back. Under the name of the app, I have four different subkeys, each with the name of one of the alarms. Under those keys are two other subkeys, .default and .current. How do I get the sound from .current to play? For some weird reason I get null returned any time I try to read the key that I created.
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May 12, 2011
I want to play system sounds with .NET code in my app - no problem if I want to use Beep, Asterisk etc as I can just use: My.Computer.Audio.Play SystemSound(Media.SystemSounds.Asterisk)But what if I want to play something like 'Menu Pop-up'? This sound is off by default in the Windows Default Sound Scheme, but if the user has set this sound up to do something then I want to play it.The user could have assigned any wav file to this action so I want to find which (if any) sound they have assigned and play it. Compatibility with Windows versions back to XP is also essential.
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Nov 25, 2009
well i wanted to make a piano with visual basic 2008 and i searched around the internet to see how to play a sound but my search returned results relating only to visual basic 2005 & 6 so i am again forced to waste your time
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Apr 23, 2010
i need a way to play wav and mp3 sounds using vb net. its has to be able to play more than one sound at same time and also to play the same sound again even if it has not finished playing
i tried this
Code:
Dim ch As String
ch = Chr(34) & TextBox1.Text & Chr(34)
mciSendString("open " & ch & " alias s1", Nothing, 0, 0)
mciSendString("play s1", Nothing, 0, 0)
it plays the sound once then will not play any other sound at all.
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May 4, 2011
What is the simplest way to play two or more sounds at the same time? It should be a light software.
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Feb 2, 2009
Is it possible to play two or more sounds at the same time (i.e., one plays in the background and one plays a sound effect) and if so, how can I do this? I am having problems because it is cancelling one of the sounds out when the other starts.
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Oct 29, 2009
i wanted to make a piano with visual basic 2008 and i searched around the internet to see how to play a sound but my search returned results relating only to visual basic 2005 & 6 so i am again forced to waste your time (sorry about that) oh and i also have the wav soundfiles i only want vb to read them in the final exe
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Dec 7, 2009
I am making a program that plays a sound whenever you hit a button, and was wondering if there was a way to play two .WAV files at once. Here is what the code looks like:
[Code]...
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Dec 11, 2009
How do i play 2 sounds at once? i have a sound effect on a button, and when i press it, it does the sound effect of the button and stops the music sound
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Feb 20, 2012
I am developing a chat application in asp.net using vb.net. In this, if a user receives a new message from other users then I want to play a sound to let him know that he received a message. I wanted to play some .wav files.
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Oct 22, 2009
me and a partner need to play sounds when certain events occur, however, every method we try..
My.Computer.Audo.Play("file.wav")
or?
Sound.PlayWaveFile("file.wav") from this class: http:[url]....etc they all don't work
They do NOT throw any exceptions, they just dont play the music, the test demo of the Sound Class works like a charm, its just not working in our project..same with My.Computer. Audio. Play.what could we have done to make it so that we can't play sounds from our application?
PS: this problem occurs on all of the computers we test it on, yet the normal sound-playing methods seem to work on all of those computers when they are implemented in other projects.. its just not working in these instances
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Dec 7, 2011
What is the easiest way to play a sound from windows sounds? Does .NET built-in library for that?
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Dec 13, 2010
I want to play multiple sounds simultaneously from My.Resources in Visual Basic 2010. I have tried:My.Computer.Audio.Play(My.Resources.SoundName, AudioPlayMode.Background)
I have also tried using multiple Windows Media Player controls, but that also didn't work.The first sound is cut off when the next sound plays.When searching around the internet I found people suggesting using 'DirectSound', but there are only tutorials for DirectSound in VB 6.0.
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Jan 14, 2010
I am looking for a way to play the usual MIDI sounds in a VB program. Similar to the beep program (ie console.beep, leading to timer1.start etc.)but instead of an annoying bleep, have a MIDI sound (like a flute, violin, clarinet, etc.). Is this possible in VB 2008?
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Jan 6, 2010
I am using the following code to play sounds in my VB.NET application: [Code] now this works fine for any sound file. However there is a second sound file (sound2.wav) which I want to play sometimes too. I want sound2 to have priority over sound1, however if I play sound2 using this method and then sound1 also plays a second later, sound2 will be canceled for sound1 to play.
So I'd like to know if there's a way to either play both sounds at once, or to check if sound2 is playing before I play sound1, and then only play sound1 if sound2 is not currently playing.
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Mar 18, 2009
i have a button in my application that starts a function to play sounds.But when the function starts a have a problem that my application stops working until all the sounds are played. Then a want to display a waiting screen to show the status of the current application. To this i thought to create a new thread to open the waiting window and then show the messages.
But i have a problem that when my thread finishes, it closes the waiting screen. I tryied to put a loop inside my thread, but this crashes my aplication until the loop condition is satisfied.
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Nov 20, 2008
For an application I am building, I need to have the user specify button labels and be able to click on them to play a sound they specify. I would like them to be able to specify the number of buttons, the label for the buttons, and the sound file to be played. I would then like the user to be able to save those settings. How do I go about doing this? Also, how do I get the file they've opened's name to show up in the title bar of the app?
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Sep 20, 2010
I am wanting to simply insert a sound/music file into my program, and perhaps make a button function to make it play?
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Mar 20, 2009
I have a button in my application that starts a function to play sounds. But when the function starts a have a problem that my application stops working until all the sounds are played. Then a want to display a waiting screen to show the status of the current application. To this i thought to create a new thread to open the waiting window and then show the messages. But i have a problem that when my thread finishes, it closes the waiting screen. I tryied to put a loop inside my thread, but this crashes my aplication until the loop condition is satisfied.
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Jan 25, 2012
I would like to disable some or all system sounds for a .NET 3.5 application.
I cannot find anything around System.Media.SystemSounds that turns off sound settings that the user has chosen via the control panel.
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Jan 10, 2012
I'm having trouble figuring out how to access my system tray context menu from a winforms opened up from one of the menu choices. The task notifier was created using a module and an applicationcontext so I could start the application without a form.
Here is m simplified code.
Module Module1
Public OpenFormsHash As New Hashtable
Public Sub Main()
[Code]....
When I start my form, in this case fSettings, I can't figure out how to get access back to my context menu. I'd like to modify it based on events that happen on the open form (fSettings).
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Apr 14, 2011
An unhandled exception of type 'System.StackOverflowException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll it also says make sure you do not have infinate loop or infinate recursion il give all code in order that they are executed in Check the chechbox and it disables all irelevent stuff and populates the combobox
Private Sub CheckBox_Spray_CheckedChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CheckBox_Spray.CheckedChanged
If Me.CheckBox_Spray.Checked = True Then
[code]....
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Feb 3, 2010
why I can access System.Windows.Forms.DataVisualization.Charting.Utilities within C#, but not VB?
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Sep 8, 2010
I have the code which checks if there is a selected tab
Private Function GetBrowser() As WebBrowser
If TabControl1.SelectedTab IsNot Nothing Then
For Each c As Control In TabControl1.SelectedTab.Controls
If TypeOf (c) Is WebBrowser Then
Return c
[Code]...
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Nov 6, 2008
Public soundPlay As New System.Media.SoundPlayer How do I play an embedded resource wav file.
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Nov 2, 2009
Does anyone know how to play a video on a windows form in a window like using a picturebox with a JPG?
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Mar 25, 2009
I need to play a sound file: Soundsopen_creaky_door.wav"
However the code only works if I specify the EXACT location:
My.Computer.Audio.Play("c:soundsopen_creaky_door .wav")
Is there a way I can set the relative path to something like this?
My.Computer.Audio.Play("soundsopen_creaky_door.w av")
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Mar 19, 2010
I am new to programming I just started using visual basic to make windows mobile 6.5 apps. I have searched everywhere but I just cant find out how to play a sound file (.wav). I need the code to play the sound when the user clicks a button (or picturebox, I really don't mind either one).
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Dec 7, 2007
Is it possible to play flash movis in a windows form? If so can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to achieve it.
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Apr 28, 2009
I have a panel with some controls in it (several textboxes, a slider, 2 buttons, and a small groupbox).. When I click a button, I want all of the textboxes within the panel to be readonly... So I have this code: [code] When I run it though, I get the following error:Unable to cast object of type 'System.Windows.Forms.Button' to type 'System.Windows.Forms.TextBox'.If I remove a button, it moves on to give me the same error but for a label..
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