play default Windows sounds in Windows Service

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I am developing windows service in VB.net in VS2010

In some case I want to play system default sound for user notification.

I had tried following code to play sound but it's not playing any sound.

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System.Media.SystemSounds.Question.Play()

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 'I checked by attaching debug that the path is correct
My.Computer.Audio.Play(Path.Combine(My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath, "Blip.wav"), AudioPlayMode.Background)

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My.Computer.Audio.PlaySystemSound(Media.SystemSounds.Question)

Even I checked the check box of "Allow to interact with desktop" in service properties after installing service using "InstallUtil"

I checked the speaker connected with my pc.

I have tested it in win xp and win 7

Please help me to resolved this issue and let me know where I am going wrong.

Thanks

Posted 5-Jan-13 0:53am

Jaydeep Jadav

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Solution 1

I don't think you can play sounds from a service. At least, I've never heard of a single service ever playing a sound. That was always left up to a user-mode application that talks to the service and receives notifications from it, via named pipes or some other communication method.

Posted 5-Jan-13 12:35pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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**Jaydeep Jadav** · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-06T17:34:00

Solution 2

I succeed with this link http://bresleveloper.blogspot.co.il/2012/06/c-service-play-sound-with-naudio.html[^] even if user has not logged in the service will play sound.

Posted 6-Jan-13 17:34pm

Jaydeep Jadav