simpleSound = new SoundPlayer(@"c:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav");
Why and what is the @ for?
simpleSound = new SoundPlayer(@c:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav); Why and what is the @ for?
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simpleSound = new SoundPlayer(@"c:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav");
Why and what is the @ for?
It’s a literal string. Instead of having to escape the “\” by putting two of them “\” the compiler interprets the string “as is”.
Say you wanted to print out the following text to the screen:
"Hello \t world".If you were to just do
Console.WriteLine("Hello \t world"), then your output would be:notice the tab. That’s because \t is interperted as a tab. If you use the literal though, like this:
then your output would be: