I need to control the main computer volume in vb.net. I have searched the web and tried all the examples I could find. None of the have worked.
Does anyone have some snippets of code that work with vb.net 2010 to control volume?
Thanks
giodamelio
I need to control the main computer volume in vb.net. I have searched the web and tried all the examples I could find. None of the have worked.
Does anyone have some snippets of code that work with vb.net 2010 to control volume?
Thanks
giodamelio
I found an answer. Its uses Nirsoft's NirCmd (32-bit , 64-bit)
Public Class Sound
Dim nircmd As String
Const MAXVOL As Integer = 65535
Public Sub New(ByVal nircmd_location As String)
nircmd = nircmd_location
End Sub
Public Sub setVol(ByVal level As Integer)
Dim p As New ProcessStartInfo
p.FileName = nircmd
p.Arguments = "setsysvolume " & (MAXVOL * (level / 100)).ToString
Process.Start(p)
End Sub
End Class
You can then use somthing like
Dim vol As New Sound(path_to_nircmd)
vol.setVol(50)
I know this question is really old, but this worked for me:
http://www.dotnetcurry.com/showarticle.aspx?ID=431
Imports System
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices
Namespace WindowsFormsApplication1
Partial Public Class Form1
Inherits Form
Private Const APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_MUTE As Integer = &H80000
Private Const APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_UP As Integer = &HA0000
Private Const APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_DOWN As Integer = &H90000
Private Const WM_APPCOMMAND As Integer = &H319
<DllImport("user32.dll")> _
Public Shared Function SendMessageW(ByVal hWnd As IntPtr, _
ByVal Msg As Integer, ByVal wParam As IntPtr, _
ByVal lParam As IntPtr) As IntPtr
End Function
Private Sub btnMute_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
SendMessageW(Me.Handle, WM_APPCOMMAND, _
Me.Handle, New IntPtr(APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_MUTE))
End Sub
Private Sub btnDecVol_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
SendMessageW(Me.Handle, WM_APPCOMMAND, _
Me.Handle, New IntPtr(APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_DOWN))
End Sub
Private Sub btnIncVol_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
SendMessageW(Me.Handle, WM_APPCOMMAND, _
Me.Handle, New IntPtr(APPCOMMAND_VOLUME_UP))
End Sub
End Class
End Namespace
Check out VB.NET Master Volume Control Class