Category Archives: audio

Play an audio resource in C#

Posted on August 13, 2016 by Rod Stephens

The System.Media.SoundPlayer class lets you easily play a WAV file stored as an audio resource. For this example, first add the WAV file as an audio resource. To do that, open the Project menu and select Properties. Then open the … Continue reading →

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Play WAV files in C#

Posted on August 13, 2016 by RodStephens

The System.Media.SoundPlayer class lets you easily play WAV files. This example uses the following PlayWav method to play WAV files. // The player making the current sound. private SoundPlayer Player = null; // Dispose of the current player and // … Continue reading →

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Use vectors to manage bouncing balls in C#

Posted on March 3, 2015 by RodStephens

This example is similar to the one Use sprites to animate several bouncing balls in C# except it uses vectors to store information about the balls. A vector is a direction represented by X and Y coordinates. For example, the … Continue reading →

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Use sprites to animate several bouncing balls in C#

Posted on March 2, 2015 by Rod Stephens

This example is similar to the one described in the post Animate several bouncing balls in C# except it uses sprites to control the balls. The previous example stores the ball data in a group of arrays. This approach works … Continue reading →

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Animate several bouncing balls in C#

Posted on March 1, 2015 by Rod Stephens

This example modifies the earlier post Make a bouncing ball animation in C# to animate several bouncing balls. Much of the basic idea is the same so see that example first. The big difference is that this version stores ball … Continue reading →

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Make a bouncing ball animation in C#

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how to make a bounding ball animation. When the form loads, the following code executes. // Some drawing parameters. private const int BallWidth = 50; private const int BallHeight = 50; private int BallX, BallY; // Position. … Continue reading →

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Play tones with specific frequencies in C#

Posted on February 24, 2015 by Rod Stephens

This example shows how you can play tones with a given frequency and duration. When the user clicks the Play button, the following code plays a tone. private void btnPlay_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { int freq = int.Parse(txtFrequency.Text); int duration … Continue reading →

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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. … Continue reading →