C# equivalent of VB beep?

[BrianHawley]

Does C# have an equivalent of the VB beep?

Either it does not, or I'm too dumb to find it in the documentation.

If there is none, what's the best way to produce simple sound cues, like those MessageBox produces?

I know I can install ActiveX 9, which would be fine for playing mpegs etc. but it seems like overkill for a simple beep - and MessageBox seems to manage it without it.

[hellswraith]

Microsoft.VisualBasic.Interaction.Beep();

I couldn't get it to work though on my laptop. I am not sure why. You are probably going to need to reference the VB namespaces.

[CornedBee]

You could simply grab MessageBeep from User32.dll.

And it's DirectX 9, ActiveX is something different.

[BrianHawley]

Yes, mea culpa, I meant DirectX of course.

I was hoping to avoid anything than only runs on Windows, as I like to keep all my code portable.

I can't believe C# does not have native support for a simple beep. Unix/Linux programs can beep.

Has anybody run the C# MessageBox on a non-Windows OS? Does it beep?

If MS can do it within the native framework, there should be a way.

[CornedBee]

A search for "Beep" and "MessageBeep" turns up nothing in the whole .Net library.

[BrianHawley]

Unless somebody comes up with a smart idea, it looks as if I will be forced to go the Windows route.

At least I can encapsulate it and make sure it falls over in a dignified manner on Linux. I guess I could in theory write a separate sound handler for each OS type, but that's a big pain. Surely that is the sort of thing C# should handle seamlessly?

Seems funny that such a basic issue is not covered.

[CornedBee]

MS claims portability for C#, yet the framework leans so heavily towards windows that I pity the mono developers.