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How to: Play a Sound from a Windows Form

.NET Framework 4.5

This example plays a sound at a given path at run time.

private void playSimpleSound()
{
    SoundPlayer simpleSound = new SoundPlayer(@"c:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav");
    simpleSound.Play();
}

Compiling the Code

This example requires:

That you replace the file name "c:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav" with a valid file name.
(C#) A reference to the System.Media namespace.

Robust Programming

File operations should be enclosed within appropriate structured exception handling blocks.

The following conditions may cause an exception:

The path name is malformed. For example, it contains illegal characters or is only white space (ArgumentException class).
The path is read-only (IOException class).
The path name is null (ArgumentNullException class).
The path name is too long (PathTooLongException class).
The path is invalid (DirectoryNotFoundException class).
The path is only a colon, ":" (NotSupportedException class).

Security

Do not make decisions about the contents of the file based on the name of the file. For example, the file Form1.vb may not be a Visual Basic source file. Verify all inputs before using the data in your application.

Tasks

How to: Load a Sound Asynchronously within a Windows Form

Reference

SoundPlayer

Other Resources

SoundPlayer Class

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