Playing Sounds in VB 2005

[TNT]

How do you play sound files in Visual Basic 2005? I have been trying to do it with the Windows Media component. Is this the right tool for the job?

[willakawill]

How do you play sound files in Visual Basic 2005? I have been trying to do it with the Windows Media component. Is this the right tool for the job?

Did it work for you?

[vijaydiwakar]

How do you play sound files in Visual Basic 2005? I have been trying to do it with the Windows Media component. Is this the right tool for the job?

in vb6 u've to use one api playsound

[willakawill]

in vb6 u've to use one api playsound

The question is about visual basic 2005. Not vb6

[vijaydiwakar]

The question is about visual basic 2005. Not vb6

k........ cool
I'll try to solve it

[vijaydiwakar]

How do you play sound files in Visual Basic 2005? I have been trying to do it with the Windows Media component. Is this the right tool for the job?

Search for API guid. this guid contains all API's along with examples in vb and .net also. This guid is by kpdteam

[sashi]

How do you play sound files in Visual Basic 2005? I have been trying to do it with the Windows Media component. Is this the right tool for the job?

Hi there,

Kindly refer to below code segment, hope it helps. Good luck & Take care.

Declarations:

  Private Declare Auto Function PlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" _
    (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal hModule As Integer, _
     ByVal dwFlags As Integer) As Integer

    Private Const SND_FILENAME As Integer = &H20000

Code:

Public Function PlayWav(ByVal fileFullPath As String) _
        As Boolean

        'return true if successful, false if otherwise
        Dim bAns As Boolean, iRet As Integer = 0

        Try
            iRet = PlaySound(fileFullPath, 0, SND_FILENAME)
        Catch

        End Try
 
       Return iRet
    End Function

[TNT]

Did it work for you?

Nah, you need a playlist, and it kept saying that it was read-only, which was really annoying.