Sound player in VB.NET Compiler Beta2 2005 Express Edition

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Sound player in VB.NET Compiler Beta2 2005 Express Edition

Hi. Can someone tell me how to put a working sound player into the VB.NET 2005 Express Edition Beta2 I am having a little trouble, and I can't really figure out what it is. Is it a control If so, why isn't it in the Designer's Toolbox

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Sound player in VB.NET Compiler Beta2 2005 Express Edition

  • Mr.ink

    It wont work for me, it keeps asking to Convert the Files using Conversion Wizard.

    Do i need somthing, or am i missing somthing



  • Claudio Livio

    Thanks!Big Smile It worked. Now, do you know how to make the program play something  other than .wav files

  • Madhavi

    The player componant works very good

    Big SmileBig SmileBig Smile

  • Iron Architect

    Hi. I work with C#, not VB, but maybe you can 'translate' my answer.

    SoundPlayer is no longer in the toolbox and is not even in the Forms namespace any more - it has been moved to System.Media but is still called SoundPlayer.

    You have to manually add an instance of the SoundPlayer object to your code... in C#, you do it like this...

            System.Media.SoundPlayer sp = new System.Media.SoundPlayer();

    To associate it with a WAV file...

            sp.SoundLocation = "c:/windows/media/ding.wav";

    and then use sp.Play() to play it whenever.

    One other thing that you must do to prevent security errors... in Project/Properties/Security, tick off "Enable ClickOnce Security Settings" and leave "full trust application" selected.

    Hope this works for you in VB.

  • John Chef

    The short answer is, you can't play anything other than WAVs with SoundPlayer. I think this is because any other sound format requires a decompression engine to be built in to the player.

    There are a great many freeware and shareware sound file converters on the Internet, but if you convert, say, an MP3 to a WAV, the file size will end up huge.

    You can probably find downloadable alternative player components for Visual Studio which can handle multiple file formats, but I haven't tried any - I've stuck to WAVs for my modest sound needs. Maybe somebody else who views this might suggest a good alternative, probably from GotDotNet or Sourceforge.

    Good luck!

  • mvang

    No-one knows It was in the toolbox in Beta1. How can I get it in and use it Tongue Tied

  • arvol3

    All Right Man! It works. It would be nice to have .mid support, but I have a beautiful audio converter, so it won't be a problem. Thanks a ton. I have been wondering about this for quite some time now.
    Thanks again,
    The Digital Pioneer

  • N Camp

    Me again... shortly after I posted the previous response, one of my students told me about the VB player component available from the following link...

    http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/UserSamples/Details.aspx SampleGuid=7f2a3d37-7e32-42f3-9909-76573493501b

    Let me know if it works for you.
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