The information in this topic pertains only to applications written in C and C++. See DirectSound Visual Basic Tutorials.

This section contains tutorials that provide step-by-step instructions for implementing basic DirectSound functionality.

• Tutorial 1: Playing a Sound

  The first tutorial shows how to set up the DirectSound system, create a secondary buffer, and play data from a wave file.

• Tutorial 2: Capturing a Sound

  The second tutorial shows how to create a DirectSoundCapture object and a capture buffer, and how to write data to a wave file.