play wavefile

[treah]

hi, i want to play wave file i have written following code but its not working.plz tell me how can i do this? private void playsound() { string sysRoot = System.Environment.SystemDirectory; OpenFileDialog dlg = new OpenFileDialog(); dlg.AddExtension = true; dlg.Filter = "Wave files (*.wav)|*.wav|All files (*.*)|*.*"; sysRoot = "C:\\WINNT\\Media\\ir_begin.wav"; dlg.InitialDirectory = sysRoot + @"\..\Media"; // start in media folder int err = 0; // last error try { string tbFileName = dlg.FileName; // play the sound from the selected filename if (!PlaySound(tbFileName, IntPtr.Zero, SoundFlags.SND_FILENAME | SoundFlags.SND_ASYNC)) MessageBox.Show(this, "Unable to find specified sound file or default Windows sound"); } catch { err = Marshal.GetLastWin32Error(); if (err != 0) MessageBox.Show(this, "Error " + err.ToString(), "PlaySound() failed", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error); } } i have written this function to play wave file.:(

[Giorgi Dalakishvili]

Why don't you use SoundPlayer class which is built in .NET?

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[Luc Pattyn]

treah wrote:

sysRoot = "C:\\WINNT\\Media\\ir_begin.wav"; dlg.InitialDirectory = sysRoot + @"\..\Media"; // start in media folder

This does not work, .. removes one level of directory provided there is no filename in between try sysRoot = "C:\\WINNT\\Media\\"; dlg.InitialDirectory = sysRoot; // start in media folder :)

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