My old Smart Device Framework 1.4 application played sounds using the soundplayer object and:

       SoundPlayer1.SoundLocation = "\Windows\infendo.wav"
       SoundPlayer1.Play()

This doesn't work in VS2005, I get 'SoundLocation' is not a member of 'OpenNetCF.Multimedia.Audio.Player'.

 The 'Namespace changes in Smart Device Framework 2.x' say that 'OpenNETCF.Multimedia.Audio.Player' changes to 'OpenNETCF.Media.Player' but I can;t get that working either.

Can anyone tell me an easy way to play a .wav sound in VB .NET using OpenNETCF or otherwise? 

 

 

 

Wven though  

 

 Put "Imports OpenNETCF.Media" at the top of the code page.  The OpenNETCF.Media.SoundPlayer is the same one you were using before, just in a different namespace.

 Hi, thanks for your reply.

If I add Imports OpenNETCF.Media I get errors (...doesn't contain any public member or doesn't exist).

There is  OpenNETCF.Multimedia but that still gives me errors on the following lines:

            SoundPlayer1.SoundLocation = "\Windows\infendo.wav"
            SoundPlayer1.Play()
 

 

 

Not sure what errors you're seeing, but I just verified that it works.  Using Studio '08 I did the following:

1. Created a new WinForm VB Smart Device application targeting CF 2.0
   
2. Added a reference to OpenNETCF.dll (version 2.2)
3. Added a single button to the Form
4. Double-clicked the button in the designer to get a handler and then made my code look like this:

Imports OpenNETCF.Media

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        MessageBox.Show("With empty ctor")

        Dim player1 As New SoundPlayer()
        player1.SoundLocation = "\Windows\infendo.wav"
        player1.Play()

        MessageBox.Show("With filename in ctor")

        Dim player2 As New SoundPlayer("\Windows\infendo.wav")
        player2.Play()
    End Sub
End Class

Sorry! I had left a 1.4 SDF reference in.

I thought I'd removed them all and added the 2.2's but must have missed one.

All working fine now. 

Many thanks for your help.