Play system sounds: beep, asterisk, question, etc. in C#

Posted on July 10, 2014 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how to do something simple yet very useful: playing the default system sounds.

Sometimes you may want to make your program beep or make some other sound. It would be nice to just call a Beep method. Visual Basic has one but C# does not.

You could use Console.Beep() but that produces a loud, jarring sound that doesn’t fit in well with modern Windows programming.

The solution is to use the System.Media.SystemSounds classes.

System.Media.SystemSounds.Asterisk.Play()
System.Media.SystemSounds.Beep.Play()
System.Media.SystemSounds.Exclamation.Play()
System.Media.SystemSounds.Hand.Play()
System.Media.SystemSounds.Question.Play()

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2 Responses to Play system sounds: beep, asterisk, question, etc. in C#

Dave says:

July 28, 2017 at 3:20 pm

Just want to mention that System.Media does not exist for UWP apps. In other words, the example is only good for C# in some frameworks and not in others.

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Fanuel says:

December 21, 2018 at 6:14 am

Thank you sir this helps me more. I can’t explain my happiness.

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