Direct Sales Notification Service by Sean Maxwell
WSJ Vol 03 Issue 09 - pg.31

Listing 1

private System.Xml.XmlDocument GetSalesFromService()
{
	System.Xml.XmlDocument oSalesXml = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
	MyWebReference.DirectSales oDirSales = new MyWebReference.DirectSales();
	oSalesXml.LoadXml(oDirSales.GetSales());
	return oSalesXml;
}

Listing 2

public const UInt32 SND_ASYNC = 1;
public const UInt32 SND_MEMORY = 4;
public static void PlayWavResource(string wav)
{
	// get the namespace 
	string strNameSpace=
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name.ToString();
	// get the resource into a stream
	Stream str =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream
	(strNameSpace +"."+ wav);
		if ( str == null )
			return;
		// bring stream into a byte array
		byte[] bStr = new Byte[str.Length];
		str.Read(bStr, 0, (int)str.Length);
		// play the resource
		PlaySound(bStr, IntPtr.Zero, SND_ASYNC | SND_MEMORY);