Question

I know there are a lot of threads with this same topic, but for a reason I don’t understand yet, this is not working for me.

I have this project tree:

I embedded the alarm.wav to the .resx file from the Project->Properties->Resources menu.

I tried different combinations of code but nothing works.

At the moment this is the code I’m trying.

using System;
using System.Media;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Threading;
using System.Globalization;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Resources;
using AlarmForm;

namespace Alarm
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private bool estado = false;
        private SoundPlayer sonido;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            ResourceManager resources = new ResourceManager(typeof(Form1));
            sonido = new SoundPlayer(resources.GetStream("alarma"));
        }
    }
}

No error is displayed during the compilation or the runtime, but instead of the sound an error beep is heard.

Edited: Error I found trying to use Alarm.Properties

Answer 1

Why are you trying to use resources.GetStream() while you can link the file directly using Alarm.Properties? I believe that it’d be much easier. I see that you’ve also forgot to play the Sound file linked to sonido which represents a new SoundPlayer. Here’s a simple example that shows how to use SoundPlayer

Example

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Resources;
using System.Media;
using AlarmForm.
using AlarmForm.Properties; //Required to call 'Resources' directly

namespace Alarm
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        private bool estado = false;
        private SoundPlayer sonido;

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            //ResourceManager resources = new ResourceManager(typeof(Form1)); //We do not actually need this
            sonido = new SoundPlayer(Resources.alarma); //Initialize a new SoundPlayer linked to our sound file (or Alarm.Properties.Resources.alarma if Alarm.Properties was not imported)
            sonido.Play(); //Required if you would like to play the file
        }
    }
}

Notice that: You may stop the SoundPlayer from playing anytime by doing sonido.Stop() since sonido which represents a new class of name SoundPlayer was defined under public partial class Form1: Form UNLESS if the void that is trying to call sonido is static.

Thanks,

I hope you find this helpful 🙂