MciStringSender

MciStringSender is a simple .NET 5 console application that can be used to send Multimedia command strings to Media Control Interface (MCI).

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Points of interest

• MciStringSender.cs - a simple wrapper around mciSendString and mciGetErrorString Windows API functions.

var mciRequest = Console.ReadLine();

if (mciRequest != null)
{
    var mciStringSender = new MciStringSender();
    
    if (mciStringSender.TrySendString(mciRequest, out var mciResponse))
    {
        if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(mciResponse))
        {
            Console.WriteLine(mciResponse);
        }
    }
    else
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Error {mciStringSender.LastErrorCode} '{mciStringSender.LastErrorString}'");
    }
}

• MciPlayer.cs - a helper class that uses MciStringSender class to play multimedia files.