Taskbar and sounds

[EWM]

Hi all, I have a simple task at hand. Does any one know a simple C# way to achieve the following: 1. Flash my applications taskbar icon, if my app isnt the forground application 2. Simply play any of the OS sounds from within a C# application (even beeping). I am running under windowsXP..any suggestions/code snippets would be greatly appreciated.. thanks

[Don_s]

For the flashing icon i think you will need two icons that you swap with each other at runtime (one could simply be transparent), using a timer. Let me know if you need me to elaborate.