Background music in VB.NET

[Peter Alien]

Can anyone tell me how to put a background music in a VB.NET prog ?

[Danny J]

Basically, Microsoft hasn't released any media handling in the .NET framework 1.1. So the only way you can do this is to

- Download the Media SDK

- Require your user to have a DLL installed accompaning your application.

- Start diggin for APIs

[Peter Alien]

Does the Windows API has any function to play the music in VB.NET ?

[MrPolite]

there is one, but it's very limited. I used this once in VB6, I think you can only play wave files with it

Public Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long


btw will Evrette support playing basic sound files? does anyone know?

danny J what is media sdk?

[Danny J]

Originally posted by MrPolite
danny j what is media sdk?

Windows SDKs

[MrPolite]

aha sounds cool, so it seems like it's a part of media player

hmm so it's free to use it in comercial applications?

[Danny J]

Originally posted by MrPolite
aha sounds cool, so it seems like it's a part of media player

hmm so it's free to use it in comercial applications?

Only the redistrobutable versions

[DevGrp]

Originally posted by MrPolite
there is one, but it's very limited. I used this once in VB6, I think you can only play wave files with it

Public Declare Function sndPlaySound Lib "winmm.dll" Alias "sndPlaySoundA" (ByVal lpszSoundName As String, ByVal uFlags As Long) As Long


btw will Evrette support playing basic sound files? does anyone know?

danny J what is media sdk?

The next version of VS.NET will have media controls available.

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by DevGrp
The next version of VS.NET will have media controls available.

that's really cool haha I was reading somewhere that evrette will include 20 programming lauguages in visual studio seems fun

[Peter Alien]

Yes i just tried the function PlaySound with VB.NET and it works fine, the only problem is that the audio file has to be a very short one or it "blows"...

Unfortunately i don´t have VS.NET 2003

[MrPolite]

Originally posted by Peter Alien
Yes i just tried the function PlaySound with VB.NET and it works fine, the only problem is that the audio file has to be a very short one or it "blows"...

Unfortunately i don´t have VS.NET 2003

vs2003 doesnt support that either, 2004 does... still not out
why dont you use media sdk, the one danny j was talking about

[Peter Alien]

Ok i will do that.

MANY thanks to all of you