Both are possible, I'm quite sure. But telling WMP to play a Stream would involve writing a shell extension that pretends your stream is a file. An easier option might be the embedded resource route. Does this article[^] help you? Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: Check out this cutie The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango

possible if and only if it is a class level variable! it becomes a fields, if it just has a scope in a method alone, 100 % not possible experiencing the experience

Sorry, maybe I'm not being clear. When you click on the start button in Windows XP, a small window pops up and one of the selections is "My Recent Documents". I do not want my files to be added to THAT list.

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