Managed DirectX® 9 Kick Start: Graphics and Game Programming

Loading and Playing a Static Sound

In the simplest case, what do you want to do for a sound? You want to have some type of audio data, and you want to output this audio data to all of the speakers attached to the system. Sounds easy enough, but how do you do that in a DirectX application? For the simple case just described, it is exceedingly simple.

Much like Direct3D has a Device class that controls the actual graphics hardware, DirectSound has a Device class that controls the actual sound hardware. Since both of these classes share the same name (in different namespaces), it's important to remember that if you are referencing both Direct3D and DirectSound in the same code file, you may need to fully qualify any references to a “Device” variable. ...