Check GridView and play sound if result is zero!

[proximity]

Hi,

I have an asp.net C# web site and in one of the pages I have a grid view that returns some results and fires a warning sound if the result = 0 (see below):

if (gvScnResults.Rows.Count == 0)
{
SoundPlayer PlaySound = new SoundPlayer("path_to_sound_file/Sounds/warning.wav");
PlaySound.Play();
}

The sound works great on local machine, but when it is on the remote web server, it will not play. I presume it is required to play in the client's browser / machine and despite many hours of looking and testing I'm coming up short!

Any pointers gratefully received.

Thanks.

 

[jbenson001]

Yes, this will work on your local machine because it is also the "Server". Once you roll this code out to a server other than your local machine, that is where it runs. You will need to play the sound on the client, if possible.

Just poked around a bit and found this. Maybe it will work for you?:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10105063/how-to-play-a-notification-sound-on-websites

 

[proximity]

Hi, yes, the link you provided was similar to my problem. In the end, however, I solved it by thinking outside the box!

Briefly, I created two html files with html5 audio clips in them - one for 'on' and one 'off'. In the aspx page, I dropped in two iFrame tags at the bottom of the page. In the code behind, on the text changed event, I hide/show the relevant iFrame depending on the result returned from a query. It works both locally and remotely and is instantaneous.

It's probably a horrid way to do it, but it's the only way that worked!

 

[jbenson001]

great glad you got it to work.
and glad you posted in case anyone has the same problem.. thanks